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Films Le Grand Theatre de Jean Renoir
Retrospective at the Orson Welles Cinema over the next two weeks. INRENOIR'S mature works every formal device brings the actors
Films A Tale Told by an Idiot RYAN'S DAUGHTER at the Charles Cinema till Doomsday
THE ENORMITY of it. Thirteen million Super Panavision dollars-it's like trying to describe a million-dollar tinted postcard. The stories about
Movies Another Counter-Revolutionary Film Bites the Dust
LEE LOCKWOOD, the photojournalist who did interview books with Fidel Castro and Eldridge Cleaver, will run a benefit show at
The Sophist Antonio das Mortes at Lowell House, 8 and 10 tonight
-Glauber Rocha, director of Antonio das Mortes, describing the style of William Faulkner. TO GET you to see this film,
More Bourgeois Films A Quiet Place in the Country and Leo the Last premiering at the Central Square Cinema
A QUIET PLACE in the Country opens in promisingly non-narrative fashion, throwing movie credits and Baroque paintings and Francis Bacon's
Movies The Sky Pirate at the Orson Welles Cinema
THE ORSON Welles's latest publicity flyer calls Sky Pirate "a picture of the highest quality, and one which represents the
Film The Wild Child
with "The Miracle Worker" at the Harvard Square Theatre tonight ON LEARNING that Arthur Penn was already making a film
Godard's 'Le Gai Savoir'
IN THE MIDDLE of Le Gai Savoir (1968) the word "exploration" is offered up for definition. Jean-Pierre Leaud, like Godard's
Film Ugetsu Mongatari at Emerson 105, 7 and 9:30 tonight
THE MEDIEVAL peasants who are the heroes of Ugetsu (1953) don't have to be complicated to become tragic figures. Like
The Moviegoer Topaz at the Harvard Square through tomorrow
YOU'RE sitting in the Harvard Square watching the newest Hitchcock and this dreadful Cold War rhetoric begins falling on you
No Headline
CHABROL'S subdued descriptions of situations work most strongly in the home. When the wife lies back on her bed she
The Moviegoer Shock Corridor at room 10-250, M.I.T., tonight, 8 and 10 p.m.
SAMUEL FULLER is probably the greatest social critic among America's film-makers. "Most people say [social contradictions] should be left to
The Moviegoer Sansho the Bailiff
at the Central Square January 21 through 28 "WITHOUT mercy a man is like a beast... All men are created
The Rock FreakGiant Step
AS HE GROWS Taj Mahal is achieving more by putting out less. From its first song his new album relaxes,
The Moviegoer The Testament of Dr. Mabuse at 2 Divinity Avenue tonight
FRITZ LANG'S most brilliant act was the creation of Dr. Mabuse. Esteemed psychologist, master-mind counterfeiter, Mabuse prowled fast society "to
