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| Discussions about film, both current and classic — what to watch and what to miss. With an emphasis on alt-TV movies, overlooked expressionism, troubled subtext and local film events, In the Dark provides an alternative to the blockbuster mentality.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 --- 97 days ago http://inthedark.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2189337
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h --CONTENT GOES HERE (static)-- --CONTENT GOES HERE (static)-- When a movie star passes on, it's tempting to write the career overview, or summation of a life publicly lived. In Charlton Heston 's case, rare was the obit that didn't mention his pro-gun politics in the same breath as his larger-than-life roles as Moses, Ben Hur and "humanity's savior" (as one blurb on MSNBC egregiously put it, which I thought was a little-known Jesus role but turned out to be his "Planet of the Apes" astronaut, go figure). Anyway, meaning no disrespect, the movie I always remember him in (aside from "Touch of Evil," where his Mexican detective is priceless) is " Soylent Green ." Everyone who's seen it and most of those who haven't know the punch line, as it were. But it struck me that I remembered the movie as something more than a punch line, and when I asked others they, too, had vaguely troubling recollections of this 30-plus year old movie. So, Netflix to the rescue again: When "Soylent Green" came out in 1973, Richard Nixon had just begun his second term in the White House, paired with a corrupt Vice-President ( Spiro Agnew ), the Vietnam War was still going on its apparently endless course, there was a strong back-to-the-land movement among urban youth tired (or afraid) of modern life and its artificiality. A big component of the time was the mistrust of the government and corp ... |
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