Word: clair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes a grim wisecrack about his color ("You'll be able to see me real good up there against the snow") and manfully leads his men through a mine field. Nothing that follows is very startling. The farmhouse contains the beautiful Eurasian girl (Argentine Actress Ana St. Clair) who is saved by Poitier from the attentions of lowlife enlisted...
...crushes Ladd's leg, and guess whose blood sustains him during an amputation? There is barely time for a scene heavy with symbolism, as Racist Richards queasily watches the corpuscles flow from Poitier to Ladd. Then the Chinese attack in force. Poitier shoos his men and Actress St. Clair out the back door of the farmhouse. Refusing to leave Ladd, he grasps a BAR and stands off the baddies until his bullets...
...technique, Pudovkin's work is one of that small group of books which made clear years ago the principles of the art of cinema. Rene Clair said that "Nothing essential has been added to the art of the motion picture since Griffith": it is equally true that little important has been added to film theory since Pudovkin, and Eisenstein's Film Form and The Film Sense. (Raymond Spottiswoode's books might be included if they were not derivative from Pudovkin and Eisenstein.) I have little to say about it, except to recommend it. It is essential reading for anyone interested...
Elected by the exclusive 40 of the French Academy to join their "immortal" numbers, poetic Director Rene Clair, 61, shocked his new fellows a trifle by proclaiming in his acceptance speech: "It's so much easier to be immortal while living than after death...
...clip Quesada's power, Sayen has persuaded California Democratic Senator Clair Engle and Mississippi Democratic Representative John Bell Williams to introduce identical bills in the Senate and House. They would give the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to review all the FAA rulings, in effect making the FAA as slow and cumbersome as the CAB. The bills also call for public hearings before the FAA can suspend a pilot's license. Cries Sayen: "The law which concentrates such power in one man that he can, by hastily conceived, dictatorial, unnecessary and arbitrary actions, provoke such chaos while attempting...