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Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson launches an excursion into the cold world of Nietzschean philosophy as he takes his hero, a pickpocket, through a series of emotional situations. The film propounds paradoxes: that man must sin to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
Pickpocket. French Director Robert Bresson is a Christian cinemascetic who in 29 years has made only seven movies. None of them is a masterpiece, but the best of them (Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped) are luminous meditations on the life of man in the sight of God. In Pickpocket, a picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar, Bresson propounds a harrowing paradox: that man must sin in order to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
...first birthday, a junket to Moscow was scarcely needed to call attention to Roy Thomson's magazine section. It is now a brightly edited supplement, featuring such bylines as Ian Fleming and Lord Attlee, and the photography of Henri Carder-Bresson and Princess Margaret's Lord Snowdon. The Sunday Times circulation is up 150,000 to 1,166,000, making it by far the largest quality Sunday newspaper in London...
...Nikos Koundouros. On Saturday, the Festival offers (by invitation only) the esteemed British film. The Angry Silence, with Guy Green and Richard Attenborough. This at 5:30 p.m. Later, at 7 (no invitation needed) the Pakistani movie. The Day Shall Dawn, starring Aaejay Kardar. And, at 9:30. Robert Bresson's The Pickpocket. Tickets at the Festival Office (129 Mt. Auburn Street) or at the Loeb...
Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Famed Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson documents the Allied army's liberation of Paris...