Brudnoy's Film Index
Brudnoy, David
Brudnoy's Film Index - Federico Fellini's magnificent reminiscence of his 1930s boyhood. A lusty, loving, wry, and tender ramble through the four seasons and the many conditions of...
...Harry and Tonto: Art Carney and his cat, voyaging cross country to visit his children and see America...
...Sutton has identified about 80 percent of the marine engines in Soviet vessels carrying war materiel to Haiphong...
...Claustrophobic in photography...
...The only people who don't know are the general public...
...Economically, the argument is no sounder...
...Much of the technology that the Kremlin obtains in Western Europe comes not from indigenous firms but from American subsidiaries...
...crease as relations with the United States improved...
...As Sutton says, ". . . successive administrations have committed American soldiers to foreign wars without the resolve to win and obviously in the knowledge that American technical assistance was being provided to both sides in these wars [Korea and Vietnam...
...Leigh, Gable, Atlanta, and a cast of zillions...
...If trade were as beneficial to peace as the Administration claims, there is no reason for secrecy...
...Brudnoy's Film Index ^ Amarcord: Federico Fellini's magnificent reminiscence of his 1930s boyhood...
...California Split: George Segal and Elliott Gould as two gambling freaks, devoted to the tables night and day...
...It is a joy throughout...
...Yes, it's back again: the rape of the South, Margaret Mitchell's Magnum dud of a book emerged as one of the greatest-loved movies of all time...
...Jack Nicholson's portrayal of a zealous detective at times overwhelms even Faye Dunaway's beauteous, agonized mystery lady, but the City of Angels nearly outpaces them both...
...His children are atrocious, his ex-galfriend is a honey although senile, and Carney is splendid...
...The Communists depend or East-West trade to feed their eternal appetite for war...
...The more wheat Washington sells Moscow, for example, the more farmworkers are freed to work in the war industry...
...Scenes from a Marriage: Ingmar Berg-man's seemingly endless investigation of a modern marriage gone sour, distilled from his 300-minute six-part TV series into a massively powerful movie starring the incomparable Liv Ullmann...
...Finally, the United States could block the transfer of technology to the Soviet Union through its membership in CoCom, an international agency designed to regulate trade with the Communists...
...Sutton notes that our NATO allies have also added valuable nuts and bolts to the Soviet military machine...
...They have a ball...
...The film, socialist realist propaganda churned out last year, when Allendeism was still in flower, rises above the expectable in some moments of great beauty and force...
...In order to justify trade, several administrations have developed variations on the main theme...
...Gone With the Wind: Lawdy, Ms...
...Obviously, the Soviets are convinced that the United States possesses superior technology...
...One claim is that some products are military and some are peaceful and the former, naturally, are not sold to the Communists...
...According to Sutton, Washington has never employed its veto power...
...Harold and Maude: Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon as the unlikeliest couple since Colson and Christ, and even more fun...
...Even during America's massive involvement in Vietnam, American businesses soldmachinery which permitted Moscow to update truck and tank factories built by Henry Ford Sr...
...On their own, the Soviets have proved incapable of producing a satisfactory razor blade, let alone an intercontinental rocket...
...Love and Anarchy: Lina Wertmuller's tough story about a hick from the sticks come to town to assassinate Mussolini...
...In a modern, highly interdependent economy such as the one the West has constructed in the USSR, most "peaceful" goods have military application...
...Caricatures of the good guys and the bad, but Chile is lovely, the human drama is effectively portrayed, and the result is another example of the distressing fact that right-wing propaganda is invariably awful and left-wing propaganda sometimes effective...
...you won't...
...It reappears every decade or so to remind us of how they used to make magnificent films, and to spirit the little fascists out of hiding, the little fascists who want to censor the film because its portrayals of Negroes don't accord with the 1974 version of Revealed Truths...
...11 Harrowhouse: A caper film about diamonds, lots and lots and lots of diamonds, and lots of jejune dialogue interspersed with tidbits of fine acting (by James Mason, John Gielgud, and Trevor Howard, especially), and about as much driving force as a glider in a vacuum tube...
...Anatole Shubb, Washington Post correspondent in Moscow during the late 1960s, reported that neo-Stalinism was growing right along with East-West trade...
...Robert Altman's film captures the compulsive spirit of gambling (so I've been told by those who indulge . . .) and the off-hand ease of the dialogue is at times superlative...
...and no holds barred, yet without the excesses of his most recent retrospective film before this, Fellini's Roma...
...and other transportation executives during the 1930s...
...Despite the official secrecy that shrouds Americ,an trade with the enemy, Suttor has managed to assemble sufficient facts to prove that trade has never generated an atmosphere of peace, just the bloody opposite...
...American firms helped provide the arms that those vessels transported...
...Their suspicion is easily reinforced by official government policy...
...Suspicious people might see conspiracies in it all...
...Further, the Kremlin is obsessed with lowering American trade barriers...
...All of them were either built or designed in Western Europe...
...Heavy stuff, but a powerhouse...
...The Longest Yard: Burt Reynolds gone from football hero to football fink to stud for hire to inmate, having a hell of a time adjusting...
...Scarlett, I don't know nothin"bout birthin' babies—and other mots justes from Steve McQueen's aunt Butterfly...
...Chinatown: Roman Polanski's dissection of political and business corruption in Los Angeles during the '30s...
...It is a cult film in college towns, and should last the year...
...his new love is another tart, apolitical this time...
...His befriender is the proverbial whore with heart of gold...
...The cons are all dears, give or take a sadist, and the races coexist cheerily when the enemy is the guards' football team...
...C 24 The Alternative: An American Spectator December 1979...
...Morally, that's a reprehensible argument...
...And Sutton demonstrates that the Kremlin heated up the war in Vietnam precisely at the same time that the United States began providing the Soviet Union with more technology...
...a phenomenally fine work...
...Obviously Washington, Moscow, and the companies involved know what technology has been transferred to the Communists...
...sophisticated, chilling dialogue...
...The White House and companies should be eager to tell the public about their contributions to a better world...
...All trade transactions with the enemy are classified...
...Well, almost never...
...The Red merchant marine would never have left the drydocks without Western European, mainly Danish, engines...
...In addition, American firms have provided the Soviets with modern computers and the most advanced machinery not available from other countries for manufacturing miniature ball bearings, both of which are vital to the production of ballistic missiles and other military hardware...
...The Promised Land: Miguel Littin's historical pageant of Chile in the 1930s, of an attempt at socialist revolution in certain regions...
...No sloppy sentimentality but much sentiment...
...and his hideout is the most opulently decadent brothel imaginable in 1930s Italia...
...A lusty, loving, wry, and tender ramble through the four seasons and the many conditions of ,humankind...
...And, says- Douglas Dillon, former undersecretary of state: "I can recall no instance in which a country shipped a strategic item to the Soviet bloc against the disapproving vote of a participating member of CoCom...
...No one suggested during World War II that since Sweden was selling iron ore to Hitler, America should do the same...
...This is another way of admitting that strategic goods are sold to the Communists but the United States does nothing about it...
...If Soviet ICBMs can strike American targets, it is only because American businessmen, supported by the White House, have sold the Kremlin the necessary guidance systems...
...Another variation is that the Communists can get their technology elsewhereso American businessmen might as well get in on the trade bonanza and make an easy dollar...
Vol. 8 • December 1974 • No. 3
