Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CINEMA...
SALESMAN. The Maysles Brothers spent six weeks filming a group of New England Bible salesmen at work to produce this arresting and occasionally appalling cinema verite record of one desperate part of American society...
...play takes place, according to the program, in "The Artist's Mind." What bugs this prisoner, unlike Kafka's "K." (see CINEMA), is not ignorance of his crime, but of how much time he has left to complete his creative projects. His jailers not only refuse to tell him, they make work impossible by badgering him with camaraderie and kindness-dropping in for chats, cleaning out his cell, entertaining him with inane games and tricks. Nothing these caricatures have to say is particularly trenchant or arresting. But the way they say it is an elegant example of inventive...
...CINEMA...
...with the owner's wife is an unabashed tribute to Hitchcock), but they remain always in context. Many of the characters in Stolen Kisses and much of the action may be embellished, but it is all based and modeled on Truffaut's life. His is, therefore, personal cinema of the best kind, memory shaped by humor and artistry into warm and joyous experience...