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Enlarging her niche in film history, Gloria Swanson presided in Paris last week over a salute to her career at Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have...
...film. What lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like a cinéma vérité replay of Body and Soul. Greaves has a quick eye and an obvious affection for the more flamboyant personalities behind the sport. A reporter at a swanky press reception rather tentatively badgers Promoter Jack Kent Cooke about the high cost of fight tickets. "Well...
...speaker is a delegate to last summer's Republican National Convention, nervously eying a group of weird-looking youths assembled to taunt him and his fellows at the entrance to the Miami Beach auditorium. The listeners are a cinéma vérité team from CBS News, working on a stylish documentary about how one aspect of the big story-the hippie-yippie-zippie street demonstrations-was covered by their colleagues...
This is New York's Public Theater, which in four years has become something of a city landmark itself. In the raffish, energetic image of its founder-producer, Joseph Papp, the Public Theater has converted the interior of the Astor Library into five theaters, a cinématheque, a photographic workshop, scene shop and offices. It offers an impressively wide range of inexpensive (top ticket: $6) and provocative artistic fare: plays from Shakespeare to experimental new works, films, poetry readings, dance programs and concerts...
SPECIAL OF THE WEEK, PBS's Monday-night alternative to pro football and Laugh-In, opened with a documentary by Fred Wiseman, the most accomplished director of the cinéma vérité genre (Titicut Follies, Hospital). This time, in Basic Training, he focused on the rigors and the ridiculousness of boot camp in the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, but he neglected to report the substantial reforms that have swept over the Army since. The result is an engrossing film but failed journalism. This week the PBS Special is a revival...