Mel Gibsons Apocalypto Bloodthirsty exploitative spectacle or haunting look at a vanished world through 21st-century eyesSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks on the Movie Talk vodcastHear Maitland on the weekly podcast TVGuide TalkI dragged my heels to Mel Gibsons Apocalypto when it screened for critics last year No matter how hard I tried to keep an open mind I just wasnt interested And I came out a convert which is why its this weeks DVD Tuesday pickNow Ive read enough to know that the film mixes characteristics of different periods in Mayan civilization I dont really care I dont claim to be well-versed in the details of Mesoamerican culture but I know better than to think seeing Apocalypto is a substitute for reading historical accounts Im also well aware that it is first and foremost a spectacle of the past refracted and filtered through the preoccupations of the present What historica
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Question: Several years ago I saw parts of a movie on late-night TV — unfortunately I saw neither the beginning nor the end and never found out the title, or the premise for that matter. It looked as though it took place in Africa, and a tribe of natives were terrorizing four or five white men who had disrupted some sort of ceremony. At least two of them were killed on the spot, while two others escaped but were chased mercilessly over miles of vast wasteland. One of the escaped men was caught and killed; I’m not sure about the other because I wasn’t able to catch the end. I never heard a word of understandable dialogue, mostly hard breathing from the running. Do you know the title, is this movie available, and what exactly is the story?
Answer: The movie is The Naked Prey (1965), directed by and starring Cornel Wilde. He plays a g
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