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Spirits of the Dead
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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All the directors are competent. Poe was a genius. The program looks promising. But it fails.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Five Easy Pieces
(1970)
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Harvey G. Cox
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In Easy Rider Nicholson's brilliant cameo was just too short. It left us whetted and fascinated like a tantalizing apertif. Now in Five Easy Pieces Nicholson is given scope.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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The Milky Way
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Hail to thee, Luis Bunuel, you crusty old heretic. You can be my fellow pilgrim any day.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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M*A*S*H
(1970)
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Harvey G. Cox
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When it comes to absurdist, black-humor antiwar films, M.A.S.H. falls way, way behind Catch-22.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Loving
(1970)
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Harvey G. Cox
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The film skillfully puts all the dissonant notes in the melody, without making [the protagonist's] life seem unbelievable. In fact it is very believable indeed.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Woodstock
(1970)
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Harvey G. Cox
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What makes the movie of Woodstock a delight to watch is that it had a great subject matter to begin with: the largest crowd of human beings ever assembled in one place in the recorded history of man.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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What's so great about Willie Boy? Nothing.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Z
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Trintignant's performance is masterful.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Topaz
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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When a film proceeds on shaky moral assumptions (good, clean-cut, serious Americans vs. unkempt, cigar-smoking, bearded Cubans), and when it never allows its characters to become persons, even the suspense is gone.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Medium Cool
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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[It's] a disturbing repristination of Chicago 1968... It is also an attempt to indict the media for its reportorial coolness and detachment from pain and reality. In its first objective it succeeds brilliantly. I am not sure it does so in its second.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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The Learning Tree
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Does the film as a whole make it? It comes close. But in my view it just missed.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Paranoia
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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It is so awful you alternate between being sure it is all a put on and being sure it really is as terrible as it appears.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Goodbye, Columbus
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Despite its flaws, some of them major ones, Goodbye, Columbus is a successful flick. The photography [is strong], especially during the expressionistic sequences centered on the young lovers themselves.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Midnight Cowboy
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Some people thought Dustin Hoffman's performance in The Graduate was a fluke, or a bit of lucky typecasting. Not so. In Midnight Cowboy Hoffman clearly emerges as a tragic comedian in the tradition of (can we say it, yes), of Chaplin.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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High School
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Wiseman's technique is reason enough to see the film.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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I Am Curious (Yellow) (Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult)
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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The film is brilliant.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Teorema
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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The trouble with this film is that Pasolini may be trying to do too much all at once. So he has to oversimplify.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Joanna
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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In what it tries to do, Joanna succeeds well. I just wish it had tried to do a little more.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
(1969)
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Harvey G. Cox
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It strings together a series of funny skits, some of them dragged out way too long, allows us to pussy-foot along the edge of the serious issues but never really takes the plunge.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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The Thomas Crown Affair
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Something was missing. What? Acting and a story, that's what. Although a well photographed movie can do a lot, it's got to have something else going for it or you catch yourself glancing at your watch.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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The Killing of Sister George
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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The acting is uneven. The camera work and direction is listless. Some scenes drag on endlessly. The film is utterly forgettable.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Romeo and Juliet
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Thank God for Shakespeare, and viva Zeffirelli, the moviemaker who can bring Shakespeare's genius even to a generation of cool, television-conditioned McLuhanite kids.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Shame
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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If we move on to judge Bergman not just for how he says it but for what he says, and to this judgment every really great artist must finally be subjected, then we cannot escape the feeling that something very important is missing.
Posted Jan 07, 2021
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Bullitt
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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So forget the story. It's confusing and ambiguous anyway, maybe even banal. But let the color, noise, action and hardware put their hex on you.
Posted Jan 06, 2021
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Greetings
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Though it falls noticeably short of technical perfection, Greetings is fun to see. More than that. It is poignant, sad, hilarious and, at points, even moving.
Posted Jan 06, 2021
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If...
(1968)
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Harvey G. Cox
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Especially in its fantasy episodes, If... celebrates the emergence of subjectivity, feeling, expression and imagination that means so much to young people today.
Posted Jan 06, 2021
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