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John Ferris is an excellent organist. If you have not yet heard him (or the big Fish organ in Memorial Church), consider attending the Friday night recital in the Yard. Ferris's taste is more modern than many organist's (such as the Alain piece); and when not modern, he will often present a lesser-known work (the Walther on the program). Be sure to get there a few minutes early for the best acoustical seats in the Church, just in front of the balcony overhang...
...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...