Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vichy's continued surrender of Jews to the Nazis last week brought forth one of the war's most eloquent documents-a brief pastoral letter from Jules Géraud Saliège, the semiparalyzed Archbishop of Toulouse. Said the Archbishop in full...
...stories, but as things turned out a good deal of the film is, in the strictly legal sense, original. Ben Hecht ducoed the Molnar play into the triangle. Donald Ogden Stewart and Alan Campbell whipped up the first act of Ladislaus Fodor's play Burberry into the brief burlesque. Two other Ladislauses, Vadnai and Gorog, worked up the Charles Laughton tearjerker. Samuel Hoffenstein and Henry Blankfort are responsible for the sharecropper scene...
...such moments are few, brief as flash bulbs, and continually let down by carelessness, conventionality, lack of imagination, lack of insight into faces, minds, motions. Some characteristic letdowns...
...convince, startle, move and involve an audience to the highest possible degree. Toward that end, faces, bodies, machines, rhythms, darkness, light, silence & sound must build up a tension which is a plausible parallel to human fact. Wake Island is a cinematic defeat because it builds up this tension for brief moments, then relaxes...
Thus the Germans in southern Russia approached the objectives of their summer campaign. But they had none of the objectives. They had not destroyed Timoshenko's armies. Only when the summer is run, when the brief Russian fall is whiting into another winter, will the Germans know whether and what they have won. Then the Russians will have decided whether to stand upon their immediate southern line, somewhere near the Volga, or to withdraw to their bastions in the Urals. Then the Germans will measure their huge losses in men, planes, tanks and guns against the sure wear...