Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FILM-MAKERS who are also Harvard students eventually encounter a difficult subject: the Harvard Experience. Film being a means of self-expression, kids rightly want their films to be about what most affects them and what they know best. Movies with other subjects-gangster films, horror films-end up as hollow parodies because student directors have no personal involvement in the concerns of the genre...
...want to make a personal film about Harvard, what material and methods do you choose? The way this college affects most of its students is very indirect, ideological, non-material. A film about Harvard's concrete, material effects, though a fine political documentary, would be irrelevant to our personal experience. On the other hand, our experience of Harvard depends so much on trivial incidents, details of personal style, facades, momentary impressions about people and situations that creating a coherent plot and characters is very difficult. Most student films fail, and end up extremely subjective...
...perfect solution is a musical-a type of film in which style (its basic currency) and ideals (its subject) have freedom without getting too heavy. Brian Kahin's new Barbara Baby is more successful than one could expect. It investigates our dreams through idealistic characters whose flair infects the film. Inventive camerawork-pixillation, fantasy sequences, beautiful cutting-establishes the characters and their Panachethrough their appearances-and simultaneously exposes their shallowness, the characters, the limitations of their flair. The film, through its characters, maintains the ideal balance between being moving and shallow, romantic and absurd-not by attacking romanticism...
...long. Curious (Yellow) picked up enough long green to gross $86,704 in its first week. What also came next was bomb threats and scalpers who sold $2.50 tickets for $10. The least predictable assault came from the Black Mothers for Liberty, a militant group who objected to the film's reference to Martin Luther King. Mayor James Tate capped the controversy by knocking the audience. "Many of the people who are standing in line," he fumed, "are degenerates." Actually, some are Pinkerton men scanning the ID cards of 17-year-olds, barred by the movie...
Most Nonchalant. In Washington, D.C., where the film is also playing, the scandal has been federal and political rather than civic and general. Charging that it showed "open fornication" on the screen, Senator Everett Dirksen cited the film as yet another reason for supporting his bill to limit Supreme Court power in obscenity hearings. Had he seen the film himself? "Lord, no," the Senator rumbled. That, and six letters to the theaters, have been the sole Washington grumbles to date...