Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vitelloni, directed with tenderness and humor by Federico Fellini, is technically superb in every respect. The actors, led by Franco Fabrizi, manage to separate themselves from the crowd and yet show how each contributes to the crowd. Each seems to develop a point of view. Leonora Ruffo matures from a...
Iron Paternalism. The victorious Horthy entered Budapest on a white horse, proclaiming. "I've come to punish this sinful city." The Red Terror became a counterterror, much of it directed against the Jews (Kun was Jewish). Though Horthy's country had been shorn of its seacoast and had...
"He wouldn't agree that Monday was Monday unless it would help him," a U.S. China hand once said of Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou was asked, by way of Burma's U Nu, to sit still for a filmed interview for U.S. television...
The Grand Maneuver. An exquisite exercise in the art of film, all manner and no matter, directed by one of the screen's old masters, René Clair (TIME, Oct. 15).
The Magnificent Seven. Blood and thunder in medieval Japan, masterfully directed by Akira Kurosawa, who made Rashomon (TIME, Dec. 10).