Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pates are the despair of customs officers the world over. On a recent visit to Houston, Jacques Pépin drew a sellout crowd of cooking buffs from as far away as El Dorado, Ark., and Fort Walton Beach, Fla.?at $75 a head for an advanced cooking class. Alain Chapel, whose three-star restaurant at Mionnay is one of France's finest, was the visiting chef at Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant for three weeks early this year, preparing meals for which avid diners paid $75 each (not including tax or tips...
...title figure, played irresolutely by Alain Delon, is a smug and fashionable art dealer who victimizes fleeing Jews by paying low prices for their treasures. Then this profitable squeeze comes to an end when he learns that, absurdly, he himself is suspected of being a Jew. A bureaucratic mistake, of course, easily cleared up: obviously there is another man, Jewish, who resembles him and unfortunately has the same name. As happens in thrillers, the Delon character decides to track down the second Mr. Klein, and soon becomes entangled in mysterious coincidences. Or is someone trapping him deliberately...
...this were simply a chase film, watching Alain Delon's weak face fall apart and his well-clothed body scuttle might be just passable fun. Since it is a film about Jews being shipped to death camps in cattle cars, it is a gross and nearly unbelievable lapse of taste and artistic intelligence...
...Alain Gowing, a graduate student in Latin Literature at the University of London, is taking an introductory Greek course and loves it. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Gowing taught Latin for a while at the Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., and is brushing up on his Greek to fulfill requirements for a master's degree...
Providence. Alain Resnais has always trafficked exclusively in cinematographic style and psychological complexities, and many find his work inaccessible, or pretentious, or both. But if the intellectual and the self-consciously artsy in the film so not automatically put you off, this movie is a wonder. It revolves around a belligerently dying writer, played by John Gielgud, and the elaborate world of dreams, nightmares and artistic fantasies through which he carries out his suspicions, guilt jealousy and resentment toward his family. Gielgud's son, who is his fantasmagoria becomes a monstrously callous and emotionless lawyer and husband, is played with...