Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CINEMA 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. As a spaceship plows the galactic void, Director Stanley Kubrick searches for the meaning of life 33 years from now and turns the quest into a dazzling-and demanding-cinematic experience...
...looking for Francois?" Roland Truffaut asked the truant officer. "Go look for him where he always is-at the movies." Even as a child, Francois Truffaut made cinema his preferred vocation: the life he led up until his first feature was just so much prologue before the credits. The son of a Parisian architect, he had a history of juvenile delinquency and truancy that ended in a short reformatory stretch-an experience that was to become the basis for his first film. As an adolescent film fanatic, he came to the attention of André Bazin, dean of French movie...
With the new liberalities of the current cinema, such antique prejudices seem laughable-almost as laughable as the '60s movies will be to late-show fans of the '70s and '80s. Then as now, viewers equipped with 20/20 hindsight will perceive the depressed, desolated land that bled through the '30s films, the hunger for absolutes and the shrill patriotism that surrounded the war and cold war of the '40s. They will recognize the erosion of supposedly permanent mores and attitudes that characterized the late '50s and early '60s. They will survey the cliches...
...CINEMA...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark, symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych...