Word: bogarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Contempt), presently riding the crest of the New Wave, began the festival with his most recent film, Alphaville. His hero, Lemmy Caution, is a cross between Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon, spiced with a touch of Humphrey Bogart. (At one point we catch Caution reading The Big Sleep.) Godard lets his imagination run wild as his comic-strip hero battles the computer-king of a super-mechanized science fiction city. Neon signs flash mathematical formulas across the screen, and the computer growls instructions from what looks like a CBS recording studio...
...declared Lauren Bacall recently, piqued at a Hollywood that excluded her from the Pepsi generation and forgot that Bogart was 25 years her senior when they married. As it turned out, she was wrong, but only by nine months. The birth certificate of Lauren Bacall, nee Betty Joan Persky, gives her date of birth as Sept. 16, 1924. As for Tony, the former Bernard Schwartz was born on June 3, 1925. Still, even an aging Lauren Bacall is younger than many of Hollywood's Beautiful People...
Cyrus Harvey, owner of the Brattle, offered a par explanation last night when he compared the Bogart films to Greek tragedies. "The audience is a kind of chorus," he pointed out. "The dialogue is way ahead of its time: it doesn't age." Consequently, people keep returning to see the same films and "chant the lines along with the actors," Harvey said...
...summer, this special response to the Bogart flicks is nonexistent. The audience is passive, reacting to the funny lines, but as watchers rather than participants...
Another explanation revolved around the repetitive appeal of the Bogart movies. During the regular school year, three-fourths of the audience has seen the movie before. In the summer, most people are first-time viewers...