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Depending on one's point of view, FM is either 1) some Hollywood executive's idea of an extravagant practical joke or 2) a major breakthrough in avant-garde cinema or 3) the most amateurish major studio release so far this year. Those moviegoers who conclude that FM is 1) or 2) will find the film a fascinating experience. Those who decide that FM is in fact 3) may want to write the film's distributor, Universal Pictures, and demand their ticket money back. But any moviegoer with a taste for adventure will surely want to sample...
...asked him to return, Petric will take the first semester of next year off(as he originally planned), to complete three books: Cinematic Analysis, a textbook for analyzing film structure; Theory of sound film, about how sound relates to images; and a monograph on Dziga Vertov, a Soviet revolutionary, avant-garde filmmaker of the silent era. He will also publish a recent interview he conducted with Orson Welles, whom Petric considers the greatest American filmmaker (though one who has been neglected...
Next spring, Petric hopes to teach a smaller course in either the evolution of silent cinema, or avant garde cinema. As a result of the combined promises of President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and the Luce Foundation, he hopes to see the Carpenter Center purchase new 35-millimeter equipment, thus enabling the study of the newest films and allowing current filmmakers to introduce their works at Harvard...
...money," he begins. "Film Studies is an expensive medium which when approached in a scholarly way does not bring back profit. But there are dreams, dash-dash, even in academia, dot dot dot, that money cannot buy." His last sentence, he explains, is a pun of a '40s avant-garde film called Dreams That Money Can Buy, which he screened for Hum 193 this year...
...Nazism and expressionist painting was, as Selz discreetly suggests, a good deal less antagonistic than is usually supposed.) But if the cult of the primitive was one aspect of expressionism, the scrutiny of the far less familiar recesses of the psyche was another. Kokoschka's painting of the avant-garde architect Adolf Loos is one of the few great modern portraits...