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:...
...Funny, unpretentious, comes very close to what it's like...
...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...
...All proceeds now go to the Mugwump Indian Reservation, which has made Brando a brother: "Rumble Rump," they call him...
...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 Don is Dead: Serves him right, too...
...Incomparably the finest treatment of the great European folk migration to the United States in the nineteenth century...
...9 Hurry Up, or I'll be 30: Splendid tale of a young man desperate to make it---anything--before that magic turning point...
...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...
...Well I await that day with eager expectation...
...Our society abounds with discontinuities...
...Nevertheless, Mr...
...an hour and two minutes of the indefatigable left-wing journalist going about his business...
...9 Walking Tall: Reissued story of a Southern sheriff cleaning out the baddies...
...The Alternative February 1974 23...
...Now some of Mr: Nixon's antagonists tell us he is about to call out the troops...
...over five hours, both halves, detailing a Swedish family's remove to America in the 1850s...
...And so we come to our own royal governor and his relations with his legislature and with his Opposition Dress...
...An intemperate, abnormal politics ensues that is an epiphenomenon of an unstable society...
...With Anthony Quinn, the MexicanGreek-Irish-Sicilian, spreading...
...You will follow orders...
...They suggest enlarged government to monitor the lives of a citizenry upon whose freedom's they are forever rhapsodizing...
...You dig...
...My hope is that it is not a far different country...
...9 Executive Action: You see, fellow fascists, the right wing killed Kennedy in 1963...
...Woodward is especially fine, as always...
...Nixon's first administration was hamstrung by a recalcitrant bureaucracy, and a Congress that allowed him exactly one of his legislative jewels...
...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...
...Our royal governor, apparently powerful and menacing, provokes our Congress and our press to suspicion and excess, and then responds in kind...
...R, Emmett T y r r e l l , Jr...
...One of the few films of the month that commands attention...
...Must see...
...9 Robin Hood: The Disney version, with cute little animals...
...an unconscionably violent picture that, alas, works...
...tremendously popular with the red-neck mentality...
...this one is so full of it that it deserves a special award, one I cannot bestow in a family magazine...
...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...
...Liberalism spent forty years evangelizing for presidential power and now to its apostasy it has brought the same old religious zeal...
...Government has been marinated in corruption, and it abounds with contradictions...
...Stunning performances by Max yon Sydow, [,iv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, and Minnesota...
...it always does...
...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...
...But of course it happened just that way...
...9 I.F...
...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...
...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...
...Theodore White has made it a matter of historical record that Mr...
...And once again immoderate politics reigns, most obviously at the White House but also in the Congress...
...Watch out for the droppings...
...Mindful of all the contradict-ions and changes bestirring American society, no one should be surprised that the Congress is shot through with discord...
...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...
...Maybe Trumbo, Freed, and Lane can take on that one next...
...9 The New I~nd= Conclusion to Jan Troel's two-part epic (first part: 1972's The Emigrants...
...Harvard, it is reliably reported, will survive...
...The military will be out of gas...
...No Fritz the Cat, this...
...It is enormous, it is supposed to accomplish great feats, and it is incompetent even to deliver the mail...
...9 Jonathan Livingston Seagull: Our feathered friend flying high...
...Now this is an unsatisfying bit of news to those who have been telling us since 1970 of the imminence of presidential dictatorship...
...A french connection you should make...
...As for his impotence in the second administration, it is a matter of daily record...
...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...
...Americans live under a government that has more than tripled in size in the past decade...
...Feeds on the American blood-lust...
...Izzy in a tizzy forever and evermore...
...The number of voters who honor themselves as Independents grows every year, while the political beliefs of Americans become increasingly vague...
...the right wing always assassinates everyone...
...He is too much, as they say in the Family...
...Such conditions are bound to breed bewilderment, discontent, and instability...
...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...
...9 Jeremy: Still hanging in there...
...At any rate, all the elements of the colonial struggle are in place today...
...His journal is now kaput, but he contributing-edits the New York Review of (Each Other's) Books, so take heart...
...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...
...9 J e s u s Christ Superstar: Familiar story, uncommonly well-made variety thereof...
...bar and for whom the American electorate recently showed such record-breaking disrelish...
...9 The Paper Chase: Harvard Law School comes in for the Love Story treatment once more...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Today it is leading the mob outside the executive palace...
...Charges of conspiracy, corruption, and tyranny are in the air...
...the beenie-boppers making it in Spraypaint Village...
...Stone's Weekly: Izzy redivivus...
...A "women's picture," hut not for women only...
...Reformers whip up enthusiasms for egalitarianism and participation, and then they hand over power to bureaucracies and commissions where elitism and insularity are unavoidable...
...The prof gets all the best lines...
...Treacly, perhaps, but a pleasant iiversion...
...9 Last Tango in Paris: All right already, it has obviously settled in for the decade...
...Remember Sirhan Sirhan...
Vol. 7 • February 1974 • No. 5
