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Buffalo, N. Y. last week saw an exhibition of Flaherty films as well as still pictures taken by his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty. The month-long exhibition was sponsored by Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery, included free showing of Nanook, Moana, Man of Aran. As they had done before, with paying customers, Flaherty's documentaries packed them...
...famines of a century ago. Meanwhile, it had had a cultural renaissance. Irishmen had begun again to take poetic pride in their land, with its purple mountains, its lakes and glens peopled with green-coated, leather-aproned leprechauns, the heather-crowned hills of Donegal, the rocky outlines of the Aran Islands. Their poetry that always symbolized Ireland as a woman beautiful and bereaved was brought back to life. The story of Ireland's long struggle for independence, delivered of yore by ragged, foot-sore balladiers, was resurrected so that again, on Dublin streets, could be heard ballad singers raising...
...years the world's fair of the cinema world has been the International Film Festival at Venice. In the past this annual, late-summer gathering to pick the world's best films has chosen such universally acclaimed cinemas as Man of Aran, Anna Karenina, Mayerling, La Kermesse Héroïque. But two years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni...
...plowing through the seas, scuppers awash; or fail to get a sense of peace from seeing the vessel ghosting through a Grand Banks fog. At last Hollywood has realized the possibilities of filming the sea accurately and dramatically, and it will now stand besides the photography of "Man of Aran." Do not fail to see this picture...
FINE ARTS--Power: 1:10, 4:20, 7:40. Man of Aran: 3:10, 6:30, 9:45. Both excellent...