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...institutional or denominational churches are not. Today it would be hard to find an atheist whose criticism of religion is any more vociferous than the attack on the irrelevance, stagnation and non utility of organized hristendom offered by its adherents. "Christianity is like a trip," muses Episcopal Bishop Edward Crowther, a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara, Calif. "The church is like a travel agent with a lot of pictures in her office describing what it's like. But either she's never been there, or was there so long...
ELVIRA MADIGAN is not the most beautiful film ever made. It is not "perfect," or "absolutely gorgeous," or "exquisite," or any of the other things Bosley Crowther and his friends said about it. Director Bo Widerberg presents us with an unconvincing, confusing story fraught with technical flaws. In spots, he is brilliant. Single frames seem like French Impressionist paintings...
...respected for having the courage to ignore initial poor reviews (including your own) and recognize the cinematic gem that is Bonnie and Clyde [Dec. 8|. Today's movie audience, exposed to such a larger number of movies than ever before, is more sophisticated than Critic Emeritus Bosley Crowther thinks. No longer do bad guys all wear black hats and act mean-life is not that simple...
...have shocked audiences, but it brought them to the box office in record numbers. Bonnie and Clyde also stirred up a battle among movie critics that seemed to be almost as violent as the film itself. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times was so offended by it that he reviewed it-negatively-three times. "This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste," he wrote. TIME'S review made the mistake of comparing the fictional and real Bonnie and Clyde, a totally irrelevant exercise. Newsweek panned the film, but the following...
Tumbling Taboos. What appealed most to Crowther were movies of social content. Looking back at all those films, he nominates as his alltime favorites Citizen Kane, Grapes of Wrath and Gone With the Wind-all of them big movies with big messages. His criticism, however was not confined to movies alone. In the 1950s, he fought against the blacklisting of supposed Hollywood Communists and ridiculed some of the stridently patriotic, anti-Communist movies that were being brought out at that time. He was just as opposed to censorship movements, and has done his bit to bring the taboos tumbling down...