The literature which inspired it celebrated individuality and idiosyncrasy, rather than the hidebound extolling of the benefits to the body politic of collectivisation and uniformity. While Czechoslovakia had long tapped home-grown literature as a fecund wellspring for its cinema, the thawing of Soviet censorship in the 1960s allowed newer, more subversive works to be adapted. This allowed for an unprecedentedly rich period of formal and narrative experimentation emblematic of huge strides taken from the doctrinaire, Stalinist tenets of Socialist Realism – if only until the quashing of the Prague Spring late in 1968. The state subsidised these students’ practical studies and their later works both, even if it wasn’t always willing to release the films produced. An extraordinary pool of talented young filmmakers came to study together at Prague’s storied film school FAMU under the tutelage of several of Czechoslovakia’s greatest filmmakers, like Otakar Vávra and Elmar Klos, who covertly exposed their young charges to the revolutionary cinema from neighboring lands which they otherwise would not have been exposed to. The 1960s’ Czechoslovak New Wave was lightning in a bottle, a glorious film miracle born of an unrepeatable collision of societal and political factors. This film has been rated PG.Romert Treece.
At Loews State 2, Broadway at 45th Street, and other theaters. Benchley produced by Peter Guber director of photography, Christopher Challis music, John Barry second-unit directors and underwater photographers, Al Giddings and Stan Waterman editor, Robert Wolfe distributed by Columbia Pictures. THE DEEP, directed by Peter Yates screenplay by Peter Benchley and Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a novel by Mr. The shore-based melodrama is as badly staged as any I've seen since Don Schain's "The Abductors" (1972), which is to remember incompetence of stunning degree."The Deep," which has been rated PG ("Parental Guidance Suggested"), contains a lot of gratuitously unpleasant moments, including a scene in which Miss Bisset is massaged with chicken blood (against her will), a life-and-death fight on an outside elevator that I still can't figure out and another fight in which one man breaks the neck of his opponent, accompanied by an exceedingly noisy "click" as the bone is snapped. As a local beach rat, Eli Wallach looks as if he had been gotten up for a hard-time party.The story, as well as Peter Yates's direction of it, is juvenile without being in any attractive way innocent, but the underwater sequences are nice enough, alternately beautiful and chilling. Lou Gossett plays the leader of the bad guys, all of whom are black, which may or may not have sociological significance. One is a World War II ammunition ship, with a $2 million cargo of morphine intact, and the other an 18th-century French merchantman that was apparently hauling something that someone has to call-at least once in a review such as this-a king's ransom in precious jewels.Also figuring in the adventure is a gruff but honorable scuba diver, a role played by Robert Shaw with so much colorful crustiness that if he were a boat, and if crustiness were barnacles, he'd immediately sink. Nick Noltt, a blue-eyed blond fellow who appears to have been cloned (clufsily) from Robert Redford's press clippings, plays Frank Hardy.While scuba diving off Bermuda, Jackie and Nick come upon the remains of a sunken vessel that turns out actually to be two.
The opening yesterday of "The Deep" at Loew's State 2 and other theaters, as well as of "Exorcist II: The Heretic" (see separate review), mark the arrival of the silly season that more or less coincides with hot weather, out-of-control air-conditioning and asphalt pavements as luxuriously soft as deep-pile carpets."The Deep," which is even sillier than the Peter Benchley novel, recalls-though not to its own advantage-the sort of adventures Frank and Joe Hardy used to have on their summer vacations.Jacqueline Bisset, one of Cinema's natural splendors whether she's wearing a white evening dress composed by a poet or a soaping-wet T-shirt, plays the Joe Hardy role.
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