Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foolhardy enough to make speeches is fair game for the press. CIA Director Richard Helms learned that the hard way when he tried to speak off the record to the Business Council at the Homestead Inn in Hot Springs, Va. Arguing that anything Helms had to say to 125 of the nation's top business executives could hardly endanger national security, reporters pleaded with the CIA chief for at least a briefing. They even carried their complaints to the Administration's communications director, Herb Klein, in Washington. Helms turned Klein down...
When the time comes to put the paper to bed and bring down the final curtain, an adroit cast and the briskly coordinated timing of Director Harold Kennedy have stirred up such breezy merriment that the audience may well feel sorry that it has to go home...
...viewer must be content (or disturbed) with a vision trained on people but not on persons. Though Jancso is sometimes eclectic, he borrows only from the best, from the wintry compositions of Ingmar Bergman or from Goya's acid Disasters of War. At his most original, the director resembles neither film maker nor painter. In his own deep-dimensioned, black and white montages, he seems a sculptor who scrapes his material from the soil of his native land and gives it a cast of permanence...
...Director Jack Starrett and Cinematographer John Stephens pad out their film with lots of repetitive footage of the Advocates barreling up the California coast, but they also pull off a split-screen chase scene that puts The Thomas Crown Affair to shame. As Angel and Laurie, William Smith and Valerie Starrett (the director's wife) make up in enthusiasm what they lack in finesse. Angel is obviously and deeply indebted to Bonnie and Clyde, and even more to Nicholas Ray's 1949 They Live by Night, but anyone who expects a work as accomplished as those will...
...affairs, since People could easily be interpreted as a satire on the current vogue for explicit cinematic sexuality. Anyone who watched the two kids coupling on a balustrade or in a tree in Yellow will surely appreciate the absurd acrobatics of the scene in the train toilet. Writer-Director Henning Carlsen often dwells too long on a single joke or effect, and it might be argued that he shrewdly exploits permissiveness while satirizing it, but such reservations do nothing to diminish People's raucous vitality. After the sociological tedium of Yellow, and the adolescent eroticism of such other Scandinavian...