Mr. “Candid Camera” himself, Allen Funt, was the architect of reality television. With the show absent from the airwaves for going on three years, Funt turned his hidden camera in the direction of the big screen for what he called, “A series of sex-related comic incidents.” My first X-rated movie: …
François Truffaut’s factual, unembellished re-enactment of the events set down in a French doctor’s journal, having to do with the capture and gradual domestication of an adolescent found roaming the forests as a beast. The plain, semi-documentary style sits a bit strangely amid the quaint 18th-century trappings (ruffled shirts, horse-drawn …
Ken Russell's deep-purple summoning up of the D.H. Lawrence "spirit." This is the movie that initially launched Russell, whom even many of his early backers have been repentantly, vengefully, and quite rightly trying to shoot down ever since. Starring Oliver Reed and Alan Bates, the latter in his seventeenth or …
Antonioni brings his sober regard to the United States and tries to make himself at home amid rebellious youth. He seems considerably tentative, a little ingratiating, a little obsequious, about attaining the correct attitude. And he sometimes seems to let scenes out of his grasp altogether -- the rap session …