Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The now-classic Beatles frolic through their now-classic first film, A Hard Day's Night...
WINNING. Paul Newman portrays a racing driver competing for his honor and the heart of Joanne Woodward in a noisy, disjointed film, in which separate scenes mesh as badly as stripped gears...
...LOVES OF ISADORA. The distributors of this biography of Dancer Isadora Duncan have severely truncated and distorted a complex and colorful life by cutting over half an hour out of the film. But not even wholesale butchery could diminish Vanessa Redgrave's magnificent performance in the title role...
STOLEN KISSES. This exhilarating film by Francois Truffaut catches the glow of its director's warm humor and characteristically gentle insights into the benign folly and innocence of adolescence...
...anyone interested, eleven of the films can be singled out as essential. Steamboat Round The Bend (1935) with Will Rogers is Ford's best thirties film, boasting a magnificent steamboat race that remains one of the most hilarious and breath-taking sequences on film. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is every bit as great and important as everyone says, as is How Green Was My Valley, Ford's most emotionally powerful film. My Darling Clementine (1946), shot in Monument Valley, pits Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday against the Clantons in an OK Corral fight directed the way Earp told Ford...