Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' fine novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti does not find a cinematic way of translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the hero suffering from alienation and despair...
...COLD BLOOD. In black-and-white photography that evokes the grimness of the real event, Director Richard Brooks records the murder of a Kansas family with remarkable fidelity and probes the characters of the two killers, expertly played by Robert Blake (as Perry Smith) and Scott Wilson (as Dick Hickock...
...GRADUATE. Neither Director Mike Nichols, nor a fine cast (Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross), can rescue this collegiate comedy of amours from a sophomore slump...
...Gerald Harvey, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, said last night that his office would give "full consideration" to applications that arrive later this month, even though the formal deadline was January 15. "Because of the ambiguous draft situation, we want to be a little more flexible," he said...
Nichols' dilemma is that of the director with ideas, but not enough knowledge of craft to successfully execute them. For Nichols, each cut becomes a major problem of how to move from one shot to the next, a question of alternatives and careful choice: a zoo scene ends dismally on coy shots of monkeys; a zoom pull-back of Benjamin waiting on campus for Elaine is effective until we realize that Nichols has included it in order to effect a trick dissolve transition to the next scene; unable to end a breakfast scene legitimately, Nichols covers it with an easy...