>While in Venice I saw the Anglo-American film "Lolita", a tale about the love between a 40-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. The film is thoroughly empty and brought me nothing but sadness and disgust as I watched it. The cinema of the future must certainly move away from such hollowness.
>"2001: A Space Odyssey" is an intricate 'examination' of the technological processes of the future which ends up transforming the emotional foundation of a film, as a work of art, into a lifeless schema with only pretensions of truth.
>"The Godfather" seems to me, in general, boring, unoriginal, and extremely unimaginative in its means of expression.
>I watched Coppola's "Apocalypse Now". Very weak lead actor and a misguided dramaturgy – cartoonish in execution.
>I attempted to watch "Manhattan". I left in the middle. Monstrous boredom and a totally unglamourous actor [Woody Allen] who tries too hard to be charming.
>The talented French director Jean-Luc Godard, who had previously directed the brilliant "Breathless", showed his new film in Italy – "My Life to Live", a modernistic, pointless exercise. It set outs to tackle a socioeconomic problem (a prostitute's life), but the problem is not only not solved, but not even posed.
>I watched the monstrously disgusting "Possesion", a mix of horror, devilry, violence, noir and everything else. Repulsive. Money, money, money, money... No beauty, no truth, no sincerity, nothing. It's unbearable to watch. Everything is allowed, everything is permissible, as long as people pay money to watch it.
>"Amadeus" – 8 Oscars, and so utterly middling! Not terrible, but not very human either.
>I watched the much celebrated "The Exorcist". Scary stuff. Von Sydow plays one of the leads. Very good.
>The brutality and low acting skills in "Terminator" are unfortunate, but, as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film pushes the frontiers of cinema as an art form.
