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Died. Johannes Urzidil, 74, Prague-born writer, close friend and disciple of Franz Kafka, best known for There Goes Kafka, in which he explained that his mentor's tense angular sketches were not mere doodles, as many critics thought, but graphic expressions of individuality lost in authoritarian bureaucracy; of a stroke; in Rome...
Guston's obvious debts are to American graphic art, to "some of the comic strips I used to really love-Mutt and Jeff, and Krazy Kat." But the idiom is overloaded to the edge of portentousness. It is as if Guston flipped back to the late '30s, when he was a WPA muralist -those remote days when it was still believed that political comment could give art relevance...
...Cover: Graphic design by Dennis Wheeler...
Based on Henry Miller's squalid energetic novel, this wretchedly dubbed adaptation is little more than a spineless catalogue of affairs. Where the book had the decency to be pornographic, the film is merely graphic. All the women are passive sex objects, typified by Colette (Elsebeth Reingaard), a 15-year-old imbecile who literally has no idea what the men are doing...
...across so-called class lines, a friendship the ad-man must accept for fear that Joe might otherwise turn him into the police. From this point on the film moves further into the land of the unreal; suffice it to say that its last half-hour is loaded with graphic sex, drug-popping and grand scale violence...