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...JEWISH WIFE/I CAME INTO THE WORLD, by Brecht (maybe he's ubiquitous too) and Handke, respectively. Some friends of mine from SUNY saw it last week and claimed it's terrific. But they sounded bored. Tomorrow and Saturday only, 8:30 at 1151 Mass...
GALILEO, by Bertolt Brecht. When Brecht testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, they asked him if he had ever been a communist. "No, no, no, never, no," he replied. Eppur si mueve. Opens tonight, 7:30 at the Loeb...
...COME DOWN. A Folk Rock Story of the Life of Jesus of Nazareth. He was honester than Brecht: he just refrained from answering. Tomorrow night only, 8 p.m. in Payne Hall...
...help of marxist-leninism and the thought of mao. But there is also at stake something new, something previously unheard of in cinema, and in this new content, we cannot be satisfied with a worn-out form. These films also struggle, ideologically, against the passivity of the spectator, as Brecht struggled in his time: because this passivity is not an aesthetic necessity as some people would have us believe (a spectator is always a spectator). It is linked to the system of representation in class society. Our goal is not to wrench the spectator out of his chair, as some...
...criteria are the only ones, then of course he fails, he intends to fail. There is nothing more to be said. But Godard and Gorin have lavished much ingenuity in puzzling out a new set of criteria, and here the presiding figure is neither Marx nor Mao but Bertolt Brecht...