BEEN DOWN on film

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

BUT SISKEL & EBERT GIVE IT TWO THUMBS UP!!!!!!!

john m

>nigel writes:
>"The film was released in 1971, actually! The MOVIE AND VIDEO GUIDE sez
>of it: "Bland, dated film version of Richard Farina's novel about hip
>1960s-type trying to endure life on a 1958 campus" and gives ot one and
>a half stars out of four. Doesn't look like it's available on video,
>so I don't know how faithful the director was to the disgusting anal-
>violation-with-a-heroin-suppository scene at the end."
>
>
>I saw it on release--and remember it as truly awful.  It did avoid the scene in
>question and as I recall avoided much more in the book.  I remember an 
>interview
>with the filmmakers at the time, who admitted that they weren't even paying
>much attention to the book itself and seemed fairly dismissive of it, more
>relieved that they were getting a chance to film something!  (It didn't help
>that they had graduated from my undergrad alma mater!)
>
>
>Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
>