Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When movies depict the past, that past generally becomes the immediate present of the audience. We watch events of long-ago happen before our eyes, and are content to take a temporary departure from the Twentieth Century. But the films of John Ford make no attempt to take us into the past; they are about the past...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). When a Communist film producer (J. D. Cannon) alters news films in order to depict U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam as murderers, the I.M. Force is sent on a search and destroy mission...
...Must a motion picture depict wife-trading, homosexuality, crime, violence, or other perversity to receive a favorable review by TIME? Clean, wholesome pictures that emphasize the better values in life are consistently spoofed by your Cinema department. A recent case in point is "Into the Jaws of Heck," your cynical and smart-alecky review of the late Walt Disney's Follow Me, Boys...
...other nutshell studies illustrate almost every conceivable variety of death: murder, suicide and accident. They depict hangings, drownings, knifings and, in a few cases, heart attacks...
...movie came to Boston with some respectability last week when Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls inaugurated the Boston branch of the Film-makers Cinematheque. The 3 1/2-hour movie was prefaced by two brief introductions, the second emphasizing the relevance of underground films to modern life: the underground people depict what is evil and corrupt in man; we must turn and look at our own worst sides before we can guide ourselves well in the future...