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...Calcutta. India...
...Calcutta (Louis Malle...
...Great Ladies" festival through the holidays, with Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story and the incomparable Greta Garbo in Camille. And next door they're pushing something about how people in high places aren't all they seem to be called The Werewolf of Washington. Louis Malle's Calcutta, shot at the same time as the Phantom India series (now on tv, incidentally), is at the Central along with Jean Luc Godard's Le Gai Savoir. Two more different political films would be hard to imagine, yet both apply New Wave ideas of using the camera as pen. Malle treats...
...Beckett's only film script--and even the title is unwilling to commit itself to anything more specific than Film. In the thirty-five second long Breath, the only elements are rubbish and recorded cries and breaths. (This sequence, Alvarez somewhat startlingly reveals, was written for the revue Oh, Calcutta, but withdrawn by the author when producer Kenneth Tynan insisted on scattering naked bodies among the rubbish...
Merton's sensitive social conscience made it difficult for him to confront the immense poverty he saw. Shortly after he arrived in Calcutta, a small beggar girl appeared at his taxi window before he could buy any Indian money. Merton was helpless. He recalled "the utterly lovely smile with which she stretched out her hand, and then the extinguishing of the light when she drew it back empty. She fell away from the taxi window as if she were sinking in water and drowning. I wanted...