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■ "Next
|J Village."
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best of the new
"Taxi Driver" and
Stop. Gieenwich
arc both set in New
"Taxi Driver" is the story of
a nowhere man (Robert DeNiro)
who. we xnow, is going to do
SomethingBad. Director Martin
Seorcesc ("Alice Doesn't Live
Here Anymore"), who gets
better with each picture, builds
his story brilliantly.
Robert DeNiro in
“Taxi Driver.”
We watch the frustrations of
a man who keeps an articulate
diary, but can't communicate
with oth er people.
Cybill Shepherd, who can
act well enough when the pio
ture’s not built around her. is
one object of DeNiro’s
frustration. Jodie Foster, ex
cellent as a young whore he
takes a brotherly interest in, is
another.
You’ll need a strong
stomach for the violence, when it
comes; but you can enjoy the
street scenes alongthe way.
In a lighter vein, "Next Stop
Greenwich Village” is the story
of a young Jewish man leaving
home in 1953.
Shelley Winters is the
quintessential Jewish mother he
leaves behind - or as far behind
as you can leave a Jewish
mother.
Lenny Baker plays the
leading role, a budding
Alexander Portnoy. He moves
into a Greenwich Village
apartment, takes a mistress
(Ellen Greene) and enrolls in
acting classes.
Among the Village
diaracters is a flaming black
faggot, played by Antonio
Fargas. He would be offensive
in a contemporary context; but in
1953, you were either our or not
none of this one-foot-in-the-
doset shit--and he’s out.
Dori Brenner, Lois Smith
and Christopher Walken are
good as the rest of Lenny’s
'crowd.
"Next Stop, Greenwich
Village”' was written and
directed by Paul Mazursky, who
obviously has some
autobiographical stake in the
proceedings. It’s an en
tertaining piece of work.
Two pure Holly ood products
are less exciting.
"I Will, I Will...for Now" is
a throwback to the movies they
used to make-only not the better
ones. For one thing, it's a
mistake to try to make a
sophisticated comedy with Elliott
Gould as the star.
He and Diane Keaton play a
divorced couple who can’t live
without each other. They get
back together for a 6-month trial
remarriage, by contract.
Their old incompatibility
flares up again—he’s always
homy, she never is; and a
beautiful upstairs neighbor
(Victoria Principal) looks like a
ready alternative.
Elliott and Diane go to a sex
dinic to work things out; but
Victoria and her husband show
up. and predictable farcical
complications result.
The jokes are old, but most
of them are well-done; and
considering the possibilities, it’s
aD rather innocent, with an "R"
rating just for the use of the
word, "fuck."
"Cock" gets an "R" for
“Gable and Lombard,"
Hollywood's all-talking tribute to
one of its classic scandals.
James Brolin plays Clark
Gable as if he had taken a crash
course from Rich Little; Jill
Clayburgh. having less fresh
memories of carole Lombard to
contend with, gives a pretty
decent performance.
Most of the picture takes
place in the "love nests" where
they shacked up while waiting
for Gable's wife to give him a
divorce. We’re left to imagine
the outside world, except for a
couple of studio scenes; three
parties-which all look alike; and
alow-rent premiere.
If they were out to prove
how dull a life of glamour can be,
they’ve done it in "Gable and
Lombard."
From France comes
"EmmanueUc the Joys of a
Woman,” the sequel to last
years "Emmanuelle. ” which
broke the "X" barrier in a lot of
theatres.
Like the original,
"Emmanuelle II," as it was once
known, is erotic, not por
nographic. Unlike its
predecessor, tit is one doesn’t
have a lot of dull, pretentious
dialogue about sexual liberation.
It assumes that the audience
knows why they’re there, and
moves as rapidly as possible
from one coupling to another.
Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristcl)
and her husband, Jean (Umberto
Orsini). are out to liberate a
virgin (Catherine Rivet), but that
doesn't keep them from taking
their pleasure with everyone
tiiey encounter on th e way.
I’ve never understand the
need for softcore sex movies
when hardcore is available; but If
that's your thing, "Emmanuelle
the Joys of a Woman” is better
than most.
Meanwhile, back in
Holly wood... th cy’re still
grinding out the action flicks.
Sometimes they turn out pretty
good, like "Breakheart Pass,”
and sometimes pretty bad, like
"Vigilante For^e,"
"Breakheart Pass," which
Alistair MacLean adapted from
his novel, stars Charles Bronson
as a mysterious prisoner on a
mysterious troop train heading
for mysterious Fort Humboldt,
which has been left un
dermanned by a mysterious
disease.
Romance develops enroute
between Bronson and--who
else?--Jill Ireland; and there are
several murders on board.
(Where is Hercule Poirot when
we need him?)
Sylvta Kris tel Is a dutiful wife to Umberto Orsini In “Emmanuelle the Joys of a Woman.'
Jan-MIcharl Vtnccni In * * VI q IIjlxi te Force.'
Catherine Rivet (1.1 gets an Oriental massage
"Emmanuelle the Jovsof a Woman.”
A good, old-fashioned
shootout sets everything to
rights.
In "Vigilante Force." Jan-
Michael Vincent has another
town to clean up. It's a modern-
day boom town in southern
California; and he makes the
mistake of bringing in -his big,
bad brother. Kris Kristofferson,.
to chase out the bad guys.
When the cure turns out
worse than the disease, onlyJan-
Michael will stand up to Kris.
Another old-fashioned
shootout sets things to rights;
but it’s not a very good one.
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