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...over two hundred young directors had made their first feature films, and the total number of films shot in France each year had nearly doubled. Many of these films justification ended their director's careers, but several brilliant film-makers also emerged, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Chris Marker, and Jacques Demy. In the space of seven years, an unprecedented number of masterpieces were produced, among them Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and The Soft Skin, Godard's Contempt and The Married Woman, and Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, all of which will...
...Alain Lombard, 25, from Paris, was easily the most dashing. He commanded the podium like an admiral on the bridge, embracing the orchestra with grand sweeping gestures of his long arms. His attack was marked by an easy, graceful masculinity, at times almost overpowering in its intensity. Conductor of the Lyon State Opera since 1963, he is the most experienced of the four winners. One of the judges, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, announced that he had invited Lombard to guest-conduct at the Spoleto Festival this summer, a bonus prize to be awarded on a regular basis to future winners...
...Paul Belmondo seems to see the ludicrous futility in it all--he looks as if he were going to wink at any moment. Leslie Caron perfects her crying technique, the one where she ever so emotionally quivers her upper lip over those embarrassing buck teeth and turns bravely liquid. Alain Delon's limp wrist isn't quite that of an underground leader and Kirk Douglas's General Patton is something to behold. About the only activity for the audience (aside from falling asleep) is identifying the innumerable faces that appear in cameo roles throughout the film, but perhaps most sterling...
...promise: a gruelingly realistic description of life on a moldering plantation in French Indo-China, where she grew up. Since then, Author Duras has had very little to say, but she has shown uncommon ingenuity in finding new ways to say it. She studied the "ex-teriorist" novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute and learned to create characters that are all skin and no insides. She tried her hand at avantgarde drama and learned to produce dialogue so obscure it passes for profound. She wrote several scripts (Hiroshima, Man Amour, Moderate Cantabile) for the French New Wave directors...
...doing anything new -- the difference is that we're doing it," Alain C. Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense, said yesterday of the Pentagon regime of Robert S. McNamara...