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His film merely tells the story of an unexceptional Indian family. Father dies, mother takes job to support son, son eventually goes away to college, mother eventually dies; that's all that happens. Aparajito is an exceptional fine film because of Ray's ability to use the medium to express...
All the Young Men (Hall Bartlett; Columbia) expertly blends two traditions rich in cinematic cliche-the war movie and the fearless-denunciation-of-race-bigotry movie. Sidney Poitier, an accomplished actor so discriminated against because of his color that he will probably never be allowed to play a character who...
To India's 56 million untouchables, the badge of their social inferiority is often the implement of their trade-a handleless broom made by binding together a bundle of twigs. Stooped over this broom, the lowly outcast daily sweeps India's streets and village squares, its courtyards and...
These days, major films generally run well into the third hour, at great profit to the popcorn interests and at great cost to the patience of viewers, but this production, in only 103 minutes, includes everything important in Lawrence's 500-page novel. The most serious objection to the...
By novel's end. the violent past has caught up with the placid present. The Indians are soon corrupted by the liquor that Jerrod's father illegally sells them. Civilization intrudes in other ways; a hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con...