Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...details-all these make up a language which comic strips were using before the development of motion pictures. That film continues to borrow and share these elements is indicated by directors liked Alfred Hitchcock, who sketches out every shot of his films in cartoon style before shooting begins, or Alain Resnais, who has admitted the influence of the comic strip Mandrake the Magician in the making of such innovative films as Last Year at Maricubad. Sequences use the same language a fantastic ambiguity that transcends what seems "just reality...
SATURDAY: Is Paris Burning? An all-star cast including Orson Welles, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, and Yves Montand fails to rescue this confused French account of the 1944 Liberation of Paris...
...Maybe it's the altitude," Romy Schneider suggests, none too helpfully, to Alain Delon, who plays the assassin Jacson. He has certainly known strange fits of passion since his arrival in Mexico City to murder Trotsky (Richard Burton). Suffering from a kind of ambulatory catatonia, Delon lurches about, subjecting his paramour Romy to his sexual vagaries and incoherent political outbursts. Romy, who plays a young friend of Trotsky's, grows testy at times, but endures nevertheless. She knows nothing of Jacson's murderous plans, yet senses, perhaps, that he is meant for important things...
...series of such visits, sponsored by West European Studies, which bring together, at Harvard, principal filmmakers and their major works. Eric Rohmer, the French director, made a rare public appearance, as part of this series, on Oct. 11. Others who have indicated interest in the series are Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol and Francois Truffaut...
...recent Cambridge appearance of two plans by Alain Tanner, a young Swiss director, provides a suitable target for thought for those concerned with contemporary moral and artistic decay. The widescale ballyboo over these films seems to indicate the final jading of the already over cultized Cambridge film audience...