Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Cinema choreography through the years from Busby Berkeley to Shirley Clarke is the subject for "The Film Generation on Dance...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). Skinny and Fatty is a Japanese film about two young boys, one of whom is introspective and the other outgoing, and their involvement with the adult world. Repeat...
PROMISES, PROMISES is a slick, amiable and derivative musical based on the film The Apartment. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, but the rhythms of Burt Bacharach's score sound something like sporadic rifle fire...
...BEARD. Japan's Akira Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest film makers, and in this deceptively simple story about the spiritual growth of a young doctor, he has made one of his greatest films. Kurosawa's canvas is the whole range of human experience. His techniques are impeccable, and his actors-especially the justly famed Toshiro Mifune-are among the most accomplished ever to appear on screen...
...Working with Lewis John Carlino's spare script, Director Martin Ritt has fashioned a film like grappa, with a raw kick and a bitter aftertaste. Seldom has a movie so resembled its characters. Like them, it has a primitive volatility, churning from glee to fury in the space of a second. Like them, it has aspects of a legend that has outlived its time. Like them, it strains for respectability-and never makes it. For all its sober posture, the film is hooked on its participants. It stays too long at the graphic garroting; it details too lovingly...