Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haupt played pickup rugby, then lay down to rest. Suddenly a friend called that Haupt was ill, with frothy blood coming from his mouth. From a local hospital, he was shuttled fast to the better-equipped Victoria Hospital, where doctors concluded that he had suffered a stroke-a massive brain hemorrhage. They saw little hope that he could survive. But since Haupt had apparently been fit, his heart was probably in good condition, so they telephoned the surgeons at Groote Schuur, who did not hesitate to say "Bring...
...they opened his chest and made the necessary connections to a heart-lung machine to supply oxygenated blood to his body (except the heart) and brain. Then they removed his heart. In its place, Dr. Barnard installed Haupt's heart, using essentially the same technique as in Washkansky's case (TIME, Dec. 15). There was, however, a different atmosphere. The 30-man team of surgeons, physicians and nurses were less tense. As Barnard put it: "We are not going into the unknown-we are going where we have been before." Another difference was encouraging. The transplanted heart began...
With all sorts of plot twists borrowed from Dr. Strangelove and the Bond movies, Brain is the sort of film that more or less writes itself. By the time that Oscar Homolka, as the genial head of Russia's secret service, stops Midwinter's army cold, viewers may decide that the whole thing is mechanical enough to have been turned out by a computer-and one that is worth a lot less than a billion dollars...
Billion Dollar Brain by Ken Russell. Billion Dollar Brain is a provocative film, inventive and intelligent. In a period marked increasingly by acceptance of lack of craft (witness the reception of Mike Nichols' mediocre The Graduate), Billion Dollar Brain stands out as a low-level case-book of cinematic efficiency. Russell's camerawork is frequently tantamount to cutting: he will start on a medium shot if Michael Caine, swing up to a sign on a building, down to people leaving the building, and back to Michael Caine--all so quickly we might have seen four separate shots. The interior-exterior...
...final note. List-making is a capricious process at best, and the selection of the last half is highly subjective. Billion Dollar Brain may be an oasis of craft in a desert of disjointed ill-conceived movies, but I can hardly make an objective case for it over Ingmar Bergman's Persona. An intense and deeply personal statement, Persona, to me, seemed largely an illustration of uncinematic ideas. Therefore, I didn't include it. But this was also the way I felt about Accident, and its selection over Persona simply indicates personal preference for Losey over Bergman. A point...