Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Starting with slope-shouldered, checker-shirted young boys "not knowing what to do with their bodies or souls," The Marines, in a series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like...
"The Marines," commented French Director Roger Vadim (who gave the world Brigitte Bardot), "plants a sword in the human consciousness, for it tells of young volunteers who, in order to prove their human identity, accept precisely the contrary: loss of their individuality . . . Still, I know well while writing these words...
Love at First Sight. One of Reichenbach's most successful efforts is his musical score; The Marines opens with rock 'n' roll, drowns out roaring sergeants with soaring cellos, beats jungle drums during bayonet drill, concludes with Beethoven's Grand Fugue. That kind of startling contrast...
Not until 1953, when he bought a tiny, wrist-strapped, 16-mm. camera to film the Grand Prix de Paris, did Reichenbach find his calling, and begin to make short documentaries about the U.S. For L'Amérique Insolite he spent 18 months crisscrossing the continent in an...
What Reichenbach ended up with was an oddball odyssey including hot-rod races ("tranquilizers for young boys"), Disneyland ("America has thousands of little artificial worlds"), the annual Huntsville Penitentiary Rodeo ("Here hope is never lost"), a Los Angeles striptease school ("Certainly Americans didn't invent the naked woman, but...