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No movie can fully answer that question, but any film that can give a partial reply, in documentary terms, seems automatically destined for success. The only candidate for honors among the revival flicks is a remarkable documentary called Swastika. Produced by 36-year-old Englishman Sanford Lieberson (Performance) and directed...
On the other hand, 1969-1973 was also a period packed with dishonesty movies, and the dishonesty was heaviest in those geared to youth: Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, Getting Straight, or Strawberry Statement, all exploitation "message" movies cashing in on a youth movie fad. They indulge in gratuitous technique, fancy...
THE MOOD is one of distance, quiet, and mystery. Characters walk alone through courtyards edged by arcades shadowing old men, scenes recalling the surrealist architectures of De Chirico's paintings, or through landscapes of over-powering perspective: maize fields that extend to the horizon, forests so carefully cultivated that their...
When President Nixon announced on Dec. 30 that he was suspending air raids on Hanoi, and that the North Vietnamese had agreed to return to "serious" talks in Pans with Henry Kissinger, Washington was pleased, of course, but not at all sure that there would be speedy progress. At Kissinger...
The film, set unspecifically near the turn of the century, recalls Bergman's National Theatre staging of Hedda Gabler. Here, as in that production, the dominant color motif is red of a dark, smothering, somehow vaguely menacing hue. "Don't ask me why it must be so because...