Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ending of the Algerian War brought crisis to the new student movement. Partially, the problem was that most of the students were tired. Colonial atrocities easily stung the moral conscience, but with the winning of Algerian independence the heterogeneous student population wanted to go back to its cates, its cinema clubs, its studies, and its love affairs...
...expectations of the students were shattered by reality, they became obsessed with leaving the campus. Boredom loomed. For 12,000 students there was only one restaurant nearby and no cinema. Nanterre itself is a "bidonville," a honky-tonk town of shabby houses and grey shacks surrounded by huge expanses of dumps and cheap, concrete apartment buildings. Fitzgerald's ashheaps and Eliot's wasteland, they are Nanterre. A fantastic number required a shrink...
...CINEMA...
...accomplished seven year old named Brandon Cruz is the son searching for a mom -any old mom. By happy circumstance, Brandon is far less objectionable than Diahann Carroll's TV offspring, and he even seems to like his father. The show also appropriates a few gimmicks from contemporary cinema-stop-action photography, voice-over conversation and background bursts of rock music-but Eddie remains one of those programs that show the inherent dangers of borrowing from the neighbors...
...passive, symbolic victim. Her suicide is portrayed as a positive act of defiance, not desperation. Bresson's customary stylistic austerity seems softened by his first use of color film, but what François Truffaut called his "theoretical, mathematical, musical and above all ascetic" approach to the cinema may still seem much too calculated for most viewers. Objects for Bresson are as important as his characters, and he lingers on prolonged shots of doors, stairways and display cases. Still, Une Femme Douce will probably prove to be his most accessible film. It is also the best the festival...