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...General della Rovere is a technically perfect movie, a marvel of skillful photography and acting. But its overall effect is nowhere near as moving as director Roberto Rossellini would have us believe, and at times it is hollow and dull...
BRATLE: Last two days for Ashes and Diamonds, a sensitively-handled Polish movie about a resistance fighter at the end of World War II. Starting Monday, October 16, is Vittorio de Sica's newest masterpiece of acting-direction: General Della Rovere, the story of a down-and-out Italian pimp who finally sees the light. Somewhat overdrawn, it's still in the best tradition of Italian realism. Evenings...
...beautifully put-together story of a disillusioned resistance fighter near the end of the Second World has been acclaimed by nearly everyone, including the Crimson Evenings at 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 October 14. It is followed by Vitorrio deSica's latest triumph of acting and direction, GENERAL DELLA ROVERE...
...grim for the Renaissance, try it at 10, when Professor W.J. Kaiser gives his "Thought and Literature of the Renaissance" (Hum 115) whose reading list squeezes in Boccaccio, della Mirandola, and Castiglione in addition to the two Ms snagged by Gilmore. Ranging further afield, Professors Ingalls and Rowland are waiting to introduce the civilization of India--Asoka to Khrishna Menon--in their Soc Sci 116. If these countries fail to entice, Merle Fainsod, back at his old listening post, continues his love-hate relationship with the Soviet dictatorship (in Gov. 115); and Professor Homans continues his simple love affair with...
Died. Lionello Venturi, 76, Italy's goateed, golf-fancying master art critic, who wrote with equal enthusiasm of Jackson Pollock and Piero della Francesca, believed in endless creative evolution ("To paint Gothic in 1400 in Florence was wonderful, but those still painting Gothic in 1450 were poor painters"); of a heart attack; in Rome...