Word: films
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readers. He claims that "the German filmmakers seem to have a preoccupation with this sort of thing." I believe that Mr. Counter is not qualified to describe Germany's filmmakers as a group of weird intellectuals that are primarily preoccupied with obscene topics. Most connoisseurs of the new German film scene would disagree with Mr. Counter's erroneous statement...
Concerning the controversial subject matter, I am more than willing to support Mr. Counter's protest against tasteless and racist films, but I am unwilling to support his tasteless and racist criticism of Germany's filmmakers. Harkensson's film can foster prejudice against the Afro-American people but Counter's polemic references to Germany and its people will generate the same sort of prejudice that he is trying to prevent through his arguments. Florian W. J. Homm...
...film on genital mutilation of African women shown at the Peabody Museum in January sparked a controversy between the anthropologists who screened the film and S. Allen Counter, associate professor of Biology...
Viet Nam War. Agnew was Nixon's rude political and press hatchet man. Both spoke in Texas for Bush. Afterward, Bush had some second thoughts and canceled film clips of the Nixon visit in his efforts to walk a narrow line between the White House and his ambitions beyond. Ever so slightly those first impressions formed that Bush was too cautious...
This is a complex base for comedy, but Writer-Director Marshall Brickman, making his first film after honorable service as Woody Allen's writing collaborator, brings it off. He blends accomplished directorial technique with writing that is slyly funny and acute in its social commentary. If, perhaps, the film lacks the punctuation that a big comic sequence would provide-something like the chase scene with the dictator's nose in Allen's Sleeper-it is consistently energetic, inventive and, above all, intelligent...