Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...SARRIS, who should know, calls Godard "the most self-conscious film-maker in the world." In Vent de L'est, a 1969 film which opened at the Festival, Godard passes from self-consciousness to militant solipsism. The movie is, first, about capitalism, colonialism, and exploitation. It is a Western, set at the Alcoa plant just outside of Dodge City. Almost numbingly didactic, the film catalogues the niceties of repression, as Godard's troupe performs a classic ballet; a strike occurs; a delegate to management is chosen; active minorities speak up; an assembly is followed by repression; an active strike marks...
...that the more insipid characters of the film are women-betrays a nasty truth about the movie.) The bowling, beer, and sex scenes are authentic, the lampoon of a delightfully masturbatory intellectual cocktail party is great, and occasional small details (a baby crying in a diner, a formal meal set in a kitchen) are chillingly accurate...
...movie fails in a most important way. Having set up the situation-having shown what the hell is wrong, having performed the mimetic function of art, having established a confidence which audiences grant only after strong reassurance-Rafelson blows...
...CUNY experiment works, it will almost certainly set a pattern for other urban campuses. "Failure is possible," Bowker conceded last week. But at a time when the gap between blacks and whites is widening, he added, "the unpardonable sin would have been...
...Chairman James Roche declared: "We must restore the balance that has been lost between wages and productivity, for upon this balance rests our national ability to cope with inflation, to resolve the crisis of cost. This in turn determines our capacity to achieve the lofty national goals we have set for ourselves...