Brudnoy's Film Index
_9 American Graffiti: 1962, the hop, rock'n roll, four lads and their lassies; the nostalgia flick of the year, and--your servant predicts--an Oscar nominee before long. _9 Day for Night:...
...Furthermore, it has limped along under the kind of leadership one might expect from a branch of government that for years has willingly allowed power to seep from it into the executive branch...
...9 The Don is Dead: Serves him right, too...
...At any rate, all the elements of the colonial struggle are in place today...
...With Anthony Quinn, the MexicanGreek-Irish-Sicilian, spreading...
...Funny, unpretentious, comes very close to what it's like...
...Reformers whip up enthusiasms for egalitarianism and participation, and then they hand over power to bureaucracies and commissions where elitism and insularity are unavoidable...
...R, Emmett T y r r e l l , Jr...
...And so we come to our own royal governor and his relations with his legislature and with his Opposition Dress...
...9 Hurry Up, or I'll be 30: Splendid tale of a young man desperate to make it---anything--before that magic turning point...
...Today our illustrious royal governor finds himself in the same pickle as old Lord Bellomont, the late Governor of the the late colony of New York...
...An intemperate, abnormal politics ensues that is an epiphenomenon of an unstable society...
...And once again immoderate politics reigns, most obviously at the White House but also in the Congress...
...The prof gets all the best lines...
...the beenie-boppers making it in Spraypaint Village...
...9 Last Tango in Paris: All right already, it has obviously settled in for the decade...
...They suggest enlarged government to monitor the lives of a citizenry upon whose freedom's they are forever rhapsodizing...
...9 Day for Night: Truffaut's song to the cinema, an intricate but easy ramble through the ironies of movie-making within the well-made movie...
...Government has been marinated in corruption, and it abounds with contradictions...
...Feeds on the American blood-lust...
...Remember Sirhan Sirhan...
...Will Geer, Burr Lancaster, and Robert Ryan play out Dalton Trumbo's, Donald Freed's, and Mark Lane's little fantasy, setting up the innocent Oswald as a patsy...
...Though feeble, he is feared by a suspicious, fractious, and leaderless legislature that wishes he would pack his bags: Once again the legislature engages the royal governor in an endless series of feuds which prevent normal political relations, political stability, and moderate leadership...
...9 Walking Tall: Reissued story of a Southern sheriff cleaning out the baddies...
...Stone's Weekly: Izzy redivivus...
...9 Jonathan Livingston Seagull: Our feathered friend flying high...
...an unconscionably violent picture that, alas, works...
...But prolonged war and the vapors of ideology have suddenly induced the solons to grab for their lost power, and it is a monument to the perversity of our time that the very ideology that has mustered them from their snooze is the ideology that once seduced them to slumber...
...Such conditions are bound to breed bewilderment, discontent, and instability...
...Treacly, perhaps, but a pleasant iiversion...
...It is enormous, it is supposed to accomplish great feats, and it is incompetent even to deliver the mail...
...As for his impotence in the second administration, it is a matter of daily record...
...Our society abounds with discontinuities...
...Watch out for the droppings...
...Incomparably the finest treatment of the great European folk migration to the United States in the nineteenth century...
...The Alternative February 1974 23...
...All proceeds now go to the Mugwump Indian Reservation, which has made Brando a brother: "Rumble Rump," they call him...
...You will follow orders...
...this one is so full of it that it deserves a special award, one I cannot bestow in a family magazine...
...Well I await that day with eager expectation...
...9 Robin Hood: The Disney version, with cute little animals...
...Nevertheless, Mr...
...9 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams: Joanne Woodward and Martin Balsam super in this story of an aging couple trying to make sense out of it all...
...Harvard, it is reliably reported, will survive...
...Maybe Trumbo, Freed, and Lane can take on that one next...
...Must see...
...The military will be out of gas...
...But of course it happened just that way...
...Today it is leading the mob outside the executive palace...
...tremendously popular with the red-neck mentality...
...over five hours, both halves, detailing a Swedish family's remove to America in the 1850s...
...You dig...
...Mindful of all the contradict-ions and changes bestirring American society, no one should be surprised that the Congress is shot through with discord...
...He is too much, as they say in the Family...
...9 The New I~nd= Conclusion to Jan Troel's two-part epic (first part: 1972's The Emigrants...
...His journal is now kaput, but he contributing-edits the New York Review of (Each Other's) Books, so take heart...
...9 J e s u s Christ Superstar: Familiar story, uncommonly well-made variety thereof...
...Americans live under a government that has more than tripled in size in the past decade...
...the right wing always assassinates everyone...
...My hope is that it is not a far different country...
...They get their man, incidentally, in case you've forgotten, and any delta-minus semi-moron under the mental age of one will believe every word of this unspeakably trashy xaflgarization of the president's death...
...Reformers score it for being unresponsive, but when voters express themselves overwhelmingly on issues like busing and spending, the reformers demand that government's representatives ignore them...
...9 Executive Action: You see, fellow fascists, the right wing killed Kennedy in 1963...
...9 England Made Me: From Graham Greene's 1935 novel, transposed from Stockholm to Berlin, this tale of a scoundrel adrift in a world of same stars Michael York, and he's a pip...
...9 The Paper Chase: Harvard Law School comes in for the Love Story treatment once more...
...Now this is an unsatisfying bit of news to those who have been telling us since 1970 of the imminence of presidential dictatorship...
...The fevers of the earlier period lasted nearly a century, and who is to say that today's struggle between royal governors in Washington and the Congress will not last as long...
...The royal governor possesses an awesome array of formal powers that scares hell out of his adversaries, but bereft of his predecessor's informal powers over Congress, he remains ineffectual and blundering...
...Now some of Mr: Nixon's antagonists tell us he is about to call out the troops...
...The number of voters who honor themselves as Independents grows every year, while the political beliefs of Americans become increasingly vague...
...Woodward is especially fine, as always...
...an hour and two minutes of the indefatigable left-wing journalist going about his business...
...bar and for whom the American electorate recently showed such record-breaking disrelish...
...Liberalism spent forty years evangelizing for presidential power and now to its apostasy it has brought the same old religious zeal...
...One of the few films of the month that commands attention...
...it always does...
...Stunning performances by Max yon Sydow, [,iv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, and Minnesota...
...Our royal governor, apparently powerful and menacing, provokes our Congress and our press to suspicion and excess, and then responds in kind...
...The only thing that is certain now is that when this time of presidential agony is finally over, American democratic process will be far different than it has been in the past...
...Nixon's first administration was hamstrung by a recalcitrant bureaucracy, and a Congress that allowed him exactly one of his legislative jewels...
...Izzy in a tizzy forever and evermore...
...9 Jeremy: Still hanging in there...
...Theodore White has made it a matter of historical record that Mr...
...Charges of conspiracy, corruption, and tyranny are in the air...
...No Fritz the Cat, this...
...And yet today government is increasingly unable to govern, usually because of the intrusions of these busybody reformers who are simultaneously for government and against it...
...A french connection you should make...
...Twentyfour hours before the order goes out Xerox copies of it will be in the editorial offices of every newspaper from New York City to Needles, California...
...A "women's picture," hut not for women only...
...9 I.F...
Vol. 7 • February 1974 • No. 5
