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After a visit to the Fine Arts this week, it is not difficult to understand why the National Board of Review has chosen "Man of Aran" as the outstanding picture of 1934. Robert Flaherty, that master of photography, again has travelled to one of the stranger portions of this earth and returned with scenes of nature--clouds, rocks, and sea--which are rivalled only by Eisenstch. Clouds, rocks, and sea--but mostly sea, calm, seemingly docile but cunning, the willing food-source for the Man of Aran--or roaring, raging, scaling cliffs, reaching out to engulf the whole of that...
...drama of men against the sea. The small Aran Islands off the Irish coast seem ever to be lost beneath the pounding waves. Yet on this rocky, soilless shore the Man of Aran grows potatoes, with the aid of seaweed. Fish also may be found in the sea as well as the oil of the shark, used to light his crude lamp. But the sea does not always yield its bounties without a struggle, sometimes so fierce that the Man is glad to return alive, without fish without even his boat which is dashed to pieces...
Currently exhibited in the U. S. and recommended by most critics are: The Private Life of Don Juan, The President Vanishes, Babbitt, Babes in Toyland, Broadway Bill, Flirtation Walk, The Battle, The Merry Widow, Man of Aran, Our Daily Bread...
...Aran (Gaumont-British). Director Robert J. Flaherty (Moana of the South Seas, Nanook of the North) is the cinema's No. 1 specialist in elemental-struggle-for-existence sagas. When he heard that the Aran Islands, off the Galway coast of Ireland, were so barren that the inhabitants had to gather soil in baskets to grow potatoes in crevices of rock, he went to England's Gainsborough Pictures Ltd. for financial backing. Man of Aran is the result of his two-year sojourn on Inishmore, largest of the three islands. Decorated with a musical score based on Irish...
Awarded the Mussolini Cup for the best picture at the International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice (TIME, Sept. 24), Man of Aran was exhibited to U. S. audiences for the first time last week. Critics were quick to appreciate its superb pictorial qualities, the honest artistry with which Director Flaherty photographed his characters as heroic dwarfs against the dark, enormous background of a hungry land and a mighty sea. Audiences were equally quick to feel that somehow, in the absence of dramatic line, Man of Aran missed the essence of its subject...