Word: ridere
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...male principals perform in one consistent style: sheepish. Montand croons his numbers with the air of a man who wishes that he, too, were back in some earlier incarnation. Nicholson's part is at once minuscule and a giant trip backward from Easy Rider...
...express the abysmal views of a gloomy philosopher-director or explore assorted perversions in nude, sweaty detail. Particularly risky is the idea of filming an old-fashioned Hitchcockian murder mystery in all its creaking intricacy. That is precisely what French Director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise) has done in Rider on the Rain...
...Caster. Next, Jones investigated the notion that a bicycle's stability somehow depends on the position of the front wheel's point of contact with the ground. The rider, after all, usually steers instinctively in the direction of a potential fall, thereby moving the point of contact to one side and increasing the bike's stability. To foil that balancing act, Jones replaced the regular front wheel with a small furniture caster mounted directly in line with the steering-post axis so that turning would not shift the point of contact. Trouble was. the caster quickly became...
...puffed onto the Côte d'Azur once a year to promote their wares at the International Film Festival at Cannes. Then they have gone home, leaving behind vast sums of money, countless Cuban cigar butts and occasional trend-setting films-Marty, One Potato Two Potato, Easy Rider. This year the trend was to revolution. "Right now," explained Producer Irwin Winkler, "we live in a time when revolution is a very salable commodity...
...Willa Gather, but the lines could be used without revision to describe some of her own small classics. Noon Wine (1937), a short novel, recounts a stark frontier tragedy of murder and remorse as muted and inevitable as anything by Thomas Hardy. Another flawless short novel, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), describes the descent of a consciousness toward death-and its reluctant return to life -with mesmeric power...