FILM
WOODSTOCK — Directed by Michael Wadleigh; Warner Bros. ZABRISKIE POINT — Directed by "Michelangelo Antonioni; MGM After all those sordid years when one had to rely on Roger Corman exploitation epics to catch a glimpse of what was going on around him, the youth culture finally has begun to spawn films of some depth of perception and, surprisingly, reality.
FILM
WOODSTOCK — Directed by Michael Wadleigh; Warner Bros.
ZABRISKIE POINT — Directed by "Michelangelo Antonioni; MGM
After all those sordid years when one had to rely on Roger Corman exploitation epics to catch a glimpse of what was going on around him, the youth culture finally has begun to spawn films of some depth of perception and, surprisingly, reality.
Both Woodstock and Zabriskie Point pretend to be about us, our lifestyle, our times; dissimilar in all too many respects, one is still successful as a key to where we’re at, the other fails. In the end, Woodstock won’t stand up to the genius of .Zabriskie Point because Woodstock and Wadleigh force us to become spectators to the reality which Antonioni forces at us.
Zabriskie’s Mark may well possess enough naivete to become a James Rector; Daria, jriay well be simplistic enough to be pointlessly slaughtered in Kent. True enough, Zabriskie was outdated by the time it hit the screen.