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Sometimes a pretty ugly movie like The Hill makes it on dramatic tension alone, and sometimes a dramatically vacuous one like Red Desert makes it purely on pictorial grace. Sometimes a movie like Elio Petri's The Tenth Victim, with Ursula Anbuild-up that fools people into seeing redeeming graces gets a publicity dress, Marcello Mastroianni...
...Director Elio Petri is apparently the chief villain, both for taking on so uneventful a screenplay and for composing such ugly shots. Petri used the technicians and the cameraman who worked with Antonioni on Red Desert. He has proven how effectively a film-maker can nullify such technical contributions by composing his images with the carelessness of a soap-opera director...
Alfred E. Vellucci, Cambridge's favorite City Councillor, yesterday unveiled documents that prove irrefutabaly Yale was founded by an Italian, Elio Yali...
...Director Elio Petri is deft and stylish with an escapade between a svelte, sexually inhibited matron (Claire Bloom) and an ardent industrialist (Charles Aznavour). After chasing around the tycoon's sumptuous beach house, the lady reveals that her whim for today is rough stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses...
...snapping up the London Observer at a rate of 500 per week, and both the London Times and Le Monde are sold out every day. The former, however, bears a striking resemblance to an embalmed copy of the Boston Gazette of 1775 now on exhibition in the Elio House library. And Le Monde of course has the distinct disadvantage of being in French...