Word: cir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story after a three-week tour of facilities that took him from atom smashers outside Moscow to Siberia's academic community, Akademgorodok. Along with daily doses of thermonuclear physics, exobiology and cybernetics, Golden and four other American writers were treated to generous helpings of Soviet show business: cir cuses, ballet, opera and even a Kremlin variety show. Back in New York and facing a deadline, Golden seemed a victim of temporary culture shock. "Like their scientists," he says wistfully, "science writers over there are an elite...
RESNAIS'S HUMILITY in speaking of other directors or of his own work is neither sham nor evasion. It is part of Resnais's larger awareness of the complex nature of his role. The director's control is inevitably incomplete: "All of my films have been chosen by cir-cumstances, in a way." Resnais is less of an originator than an executor of film. Film is an art of collaboration, and the director is but one of the collaborators...