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...follow the Cinema Novo percepts. Going on the premise that politics is reality, writer-director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade has left all the heavy analysis behind and concentrated on a picaresque comedy that has about as much relevance as, say, the Marx Brothers--who did, to be sure, portray their share of dirty capitalists, insatiable lovers, and corrupt millionaires. The villain of Macunaima is just such a dirty capitalist, a fat greedy man who is eventually eaten alive in his own cannibal-capitalist swimming pool human soup when Macunaima, the hero, pushes him in. However, Macunaima himself is hardly poor...
...possible Democratic nominees, the Republicans regard George McGovern as the most vulnerable. Says White House Political Adviser Harry Dent: "Some people around here are about to wee-wee in their pants waiting for him to get the nomination." If the South Dakotan succeeds, the President's outriders will portray McGovern as a dangerous radical bent on emasculating the Pentagon and the free-enterprise system, legalizing marijuana and abortion, abandoning U.S. commitments in Viet Nam and around the world...
...Carey Treatment (TIME, April 24), he is effectively ornery here. The rest of the cast fit snugly into their roles, too, with the exception of Anne Archer, who looks more like a Coppertone suntan model than the Indian girl friend of Coburn's she is supposed to portray. · Jay Cocks
...contemporary age seems more drawn to Elizabeth as a heroine. Far from being the cold harridan some histories used to portray, she was deeply emotional, a supremely complex and contradictory woman. She was also, even as legend has it, probably a virgin. Highly sexual, she was yet terrified of sex, which in her experience was associated with the death of her mother, Anne Boleyn, and of many of those she loved. "I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married," she once said. Paradoxically she was, in her own way, a very feminine woman who could...
...BEEN obvious for a long time that American filmmakers are unable to deal with the politics of the left in any recognizable way. There is a wide gulf between I Was a Communist for the FBI and The Strawberry Statement, but the two films share a total inability to portray the substance, or even the style, of radical political activity. American films about radicalism are either paranoid cartoons, like the first, or patronizing gobbledygook, like the second...