The Seven Minutes review from Roger Greenspun
Roger Greenspun reviews The Seven Minutes by Russ Meyer noting Meyer's shift from exploitation to personal expression. He admires Meyer's handling of female appetites and power, contrasts the film's courtroom focus with Meyer's broader world, and finds the plot overlong and bogged down by legalism.
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Getting Back Together. By Robert Houriet review
Houriet’s Getting Back Together surveys 1960s communes across America through the lens of a young journalist who quits journalism to study new lifestyles. He describes baptism in a Pentecostal group, communal practices, drugs and nudity, and the economic strains and tensions of living communally, noting both absurdities and sincerity.
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Robert Houriet
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Ruth Benedict
Houriet
Jersey
America
Grotesque Love Explored By Houriet in Provocative Review
A book review praises Houriet for embracing grotesque themes, noting the author’s fearless approach and the reader’s compelled curiosity to explore similar textures. The piece highlights bold style and provocative vision.
Movie review on Wayne Maunder as the lawyer
A critique discusses Wayne Maunder in a film role as a capable lawyer. The review rejects oversimplified depictions and notes the work does not fit Meyer’s simplified dramaturgical center.
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