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...case of United States v. Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, et al. appeared from their chambers and sat behind the massive mahogany bench. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger shuffled his papers for a long moment and then began to read the decision constituting the sharp est judicial blow to a President since the court rejected Harry Truman's attempt to seize the nation's steel mills...
Today: La Guerre Est Finie, 6, 9:45, and Virdiana...
Burn! is playing at the Greek Action Group's Political Film Festival this weekend instead of La Guerre Est Finie because of scheduling conflicts, and the switch is a fortuitous one. Gillio Pontecorvo made Burn! in 1970, five years after making Battle of Algiers, and although this latter fictional account of 19th century colonialism is a different sort of film than the realistic 1965 classic, it exhibits signs of the same intelligence and the same cinemagraphic beauty. Marlon Brando stars as an Englishman who inspires revolution in a Carribean Portuguese colony in order to open up the island to British...
...Guerre Est Finie isn't playing at the Science Center because it's playing at the Brattle, and it's really too good and too intelligent a movie to miss. Alain Resnais directed and Yves Montand starred in this account of the trials and tribulations of the Old Left revolutionary, and the sympathetic understanding they convey about politics as a vocation surpasses a lot of the stuff sociologists have written on the subject...
Thru Tues.: La Guerre Est Finie, 6, 9:45 and Viridiana...