Word: elvira
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BRATTLE Sept. 22-288 1/2 Federico Fellini La Viaccia Mauro Bolognini Sept. 29-Oct. 5 Elvira Madigan Bo Widerberg Morgan Karel Reisz Oct. 6-12 Persona Ingmar Bergman Devil By The Tail Phillippe de Broca Oct. 13-19 The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa Oct. 20-26 Boy Nagisa Oshima Weekend Jean Luc Godard CENTRAL SQ. Oct 13-16 The Big Store Marx Brothers A Day at the Circus Oct. 17-19 Ninotchka Greta Garbo Anna Karenina Oct. 20-23 Lolita Peter Sellers The Night of the Iguana Richard Burton Oct. 24-26 Captains Courageous Spencer Tracy Mutiny on the Bounty...
...dropped from $76.1 million to $53.8 million, while pop music, spurred largely by the vitality of rock, soared to $1.1 billion. By and large it is the young who spend all that money. Given the right impetus, they are not necessarily averse to the classics-as proved by what Elvira Madigan did for Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 467, or 2001: A Space Odyssey did for Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra. "If Elvira Madigan made Mozart a relevant experience for the youth generation," asks Munves, "why can't we make it happen for other composers...
Americans must surely have the wrong ideas about Widerberg. Elvira Madigan has been the only one of his six features to receive wide distribution here, and its popularity was for all the wrong, reactionary reasons. (Fragile and Iyrical," the critics said.) The film's nihilistic undercurrents are easy (and desirable) to repress, and all the rest is saccharine and tragic, incredibly cathartic, and sets up pure escapism as an ideal. Widerberg, however, in fact emerged in Sweden of the early '60's as a leader of young directors agitating against escapist cinema, for much needed social analysis...
...object of Silva's and everybody else's affections was Martina Arroyo, as Elvira. Her acting, even by the standards of opera, was on the tame side. But she provided the kind of feathery high notes, creamy middle range and sheer power that have made her one of the Met's most reliable prima donnas...
...good that I don't know whether I should try more films." The remark, of course, is for effect. He would, if he could, mortgage Margaret's Christopher Wren-designed palace for a chance to do a feature film like that cinematographic tour de force, Elvira Madigan. His next project, though, will still be "on the fringes of documentary." He is dickering about it with CBS, to which he feels indebted for getting him into film. Though the BBC was outraged at being passed over, Lord Snowdon says: "It was important that I should be asked...