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ANDREW SARRIS, who should know, calls Godard "the most self-conscious film-maker in the world." In Vent de L'est, a 1969 film which opened at the Festival, Godard passes from self-consciousness to militant solipsism. The movie is, first, about capitalism, colonialism, and exploitation. It is a Western, set at the Alcoa plant just outside of Dodge City. Almost numbingly didactic, the film catalogues the niceties of repression, as Godard's troupe performs a classic ballet; a strike occurs; a delegate to management is chosen; active minorities speak up; an assembly is followed by repression; an active strike...
Near by, George Craft, 69, "the spittin'est man you ever did see," and official distance record holder (24 ft. 10.5 in.), points out: "You've got to have good jaw muscles." George polished his skills hitting moving targets like chickens and cats as a farm boy; he chews only Apple Sun Cured. "My mother could hit the fireplace from anywhere in the living room," he recalls. "A spitter's greatest joy lies in hitting the moving target, preferably cats, chickens or snakes. You ought to see a cat run when you spit in his eye." Today...
...leading lady, leading lady, I've always wanted to be a Broadway leading lady: The rootin' tootin'est Annie or a madcap Mame or Dolly, That sad and funny girl Fanny, Nelly Forbush or unsinkable Molly...
...doctrina quae pueris foret aequa fortissime contendistis. In universitate Harvardiana, in patria, in orbeterrarum, status feminarum plerumque inferior dudum habetur. Mulieres se contemnere didicerunt. Copiae et honores et titulihominibus dati tamen feminis sunt negati . . . Arma nondum licet deponere, meae sorores, nee proeliurn tarn Ion-gum tamque difficile nobis est relin-quendum. Ubique flagrat iniqua virorum dominatio...
...work in the theater," she decided. "But a part can." It did. She took parts with a repertory company and caromed around Europe. In Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl to co-star as Yves Montand's adolescent amour in La Guerre Est Finie. Geneviève transferred from the Parisian television screen to the film scene without missing a cue. She appeared opposite Alan Bates and Jean-Paul Belmondo, once as a madwoman, then as a spoiled heiress. The parts pinched a bit, but somehow Geneviève let out the seams and made...