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Leonard must have been a bit over his job that day.

Psychotic biker/white slaver (Bruce) Dern is displeased when artist (Chris) Robinson opens his
sketch pad, so he plans to crush the budding Rembrandt's hands. Sadism and torture galore; coproduced
by deejay Casey Kasem and record exec. Mike Curb, later the lieutenant governor of California.

I like good movies. That didn’t stop me being first in the queue for a big-screen showing of Turkish
Star Wars a couple of years ago.

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2020

My biggest problem with the impeachment hearings is how much people’s attention is being drawn away from international concerns that are much more serious. The buildup of hatred against Jews in Europe with the burning down of synagogues and in the Middle East Iranian backed rocket attacks on Israel. It reminded me of two books by Herman Wouk I had the opportunity to review for a local newspaper when they came out in the 1970s. The books The Winds of War and War and Remembrance were excellent historical novels about World War Two and the persecution of the Jewish people.

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Once you see these TV Novels you will understand why the people of Israel promise “Never again!”

As Southern Baptist viewers of the TV Novels we likewise agree it must never happen again and it is something that could happen to Christians. It is happening to Christians in some parts of the world at this very moment.

Is art doomed to be what it has been historically prior to the 20th century - a marginally useless bourgeois plaything - children's toys for aristocrats?

Letterboxd reviewer wrote: I have never wanted to quit the Criterion Collection until now.
At least Brakhage was something different.
Spending 3 nights this week watching terrible French films about hetero cis rich white people is not how I want to spend my time.
Who gives a shit about these people?

TV Version.
I never want to hear a Swede speak again.
I used to think Bergman was one of the greats. But the more I watch from him the more bored I get with his shtick.

Came very fast and love love all the movies and packaging will be buying again soon

The depiction of black Americans in this picture is so painful I think it is irresponsible to have it readily available on streaming platforms without some contextual wrapping.

Without that context watching and reviewing this becomes a test of how much you can tolerate race hatred in order to enjoy being entertained by charismatic sexy white people celebrating their own high morals.

PPPPS: If much of what we have left of past fascist regimes is crumbling architecture, in the case of our current fascist era, we have the architecture FIRST (Trump Tower), then buildingless architecture in the form of branding (Trump Towers being nothing more than a logo), then the reality television show with the imaginary boardroom, then the regime, then Imaginary Fascist Architecture (a Concrete Wall 2000 Miles Long On The Southern Border, Gleaming Steel Slats, Etc) as a driver of the regime. Fascist Aesthetics always tends towards the concrete, the singular, the monumental, so architecture, something 'real' or tangible to ground the abstractions of the rhetorical architecture of the regime. the whole trip of fascist aesthetics is mythos-made-flesh so in Death Wish 3 or whatever the world which is imagined is realized and the force of that realization is its triumph even as it is absurdly apocalyptic. fascist aesthetics is linear and it always tells the same story: crisis building into an apocalyptic confrontation or collapse whereupon the world will be made anew. until that time, holding down the world-as-it-is-imagined-to-be at some cut-off point for history (Pre-Civil War, Pre-New-Deal) until the culmination of that imagined ideal order can be achieved

hayden thomas
1.0 out of 5 stars we are tired of being lectured
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2020
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So the content is 5 stars because tex avery is a comedic genius, but this disc gets a low score because theres a warning message after u insert the disc that cannot be skipped and lasts a long time, telling you about how racist/sexist these cartoons are and that they are not appropriate, well no s sherlock, did they think we didnt know what we were buying? We are sick of being lectured about how bad a dvd is, that WE PAYED WITH OUR OWN MONEY, warner media didnt give it to us for free, and whats funny is they put out movies with the worst violence, people getting killed/blown up, do those dvds get a warning? Nope, i guess warner media thinks its perfectly fine to depict people getting killed, but if a cartoon dares to make a heterosexual joke or makes some social commentary, oh no that’s unacceptable and deserves a full screen warning thats meant to shame the viewer. We bought this dvd to be entertained and not to be shamed. When the warner executives buy their ferraris there should be a huge sign in their dashboard saying how bad they are for not giving their money to charity instead lol

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When the warner executives buy their ferraris there should be a huge sign in their dashboard saying how bad they are for not giving their money to charity instead lol

domino harvey wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:06 pm I was recently rewatching the I Love the 80s specials from VH1 that first aired not that long ago and oof, I bet half the people who appeared on that show are praying no influential Twitter user with an axe to grind digs those up, because there are some remarkably outre un-PC jokes made quite glibly from people who I suspect know better now. Really eye-opening how far we've all come in such a short time, though

There is a shot of gratuitous female nudity as a woman appears topless sunbathing.

Same woman has sex with two men, they all sit down after sex, breasts are needlessly visible. It must be noted that while two men are having sex with one woman, there is no male nudity yet filmmakers thought it necessary to show female nudity.

A woman wears a see thru top throughout the whole movie, breasts are obscenely visible in most scenes, which is totally unnecessary.

While there is opportunity for male nudity, none is present and female viewers are disappointed yet again.