Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CINEMA...
Married. Vittorio De Sica, 65, cinema's high priest of neorealism (The Bicycle Thief; Two Women); and Maria Mercader, 51, Spanish-born actress, his constant companion for 20 years; in Fains, France. To evade his country's no-divorce laws, the Italian director became a French citizen in 1966, was later granted a divorce from his first wife, Giuditta Rissone...
...describe the Auteur Theory of Rock as a mimicking poor relation to the Politique des Auteurs of the cinema initially clears but ultimately muddies the water which supports this important new mode of rock 'n' roll study...
...attacks on the rock theory are the same as those on the Cahiers du Cinema idea--that a fetish is made of personality, that a balanced criticism is sacrified, that competence replaces genius as the ideal. But a look at the following registers clearly shows that the great artists by any standard are the great auteurs; and while many singers who enjoyed contemporary success are dismissed by this evaluation, history will prove that these were the tide-riders, and the auteurs will stand as the forces that supplied the shock that generated the waves...
Limiting the study to white individual artists perhaps increase the resemblance of this paper to Andrew Sarris's rankings of American directors in Film Culture (to continue the cinema parallel). But this is a fertile field, without question, and while the categories of "groups" and Negro performers may be of equivalent stature, the category of white individuals is schematically the logical starting point and should provide more handles for the novitiate to grasp...