Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting is a film in itself. Shot in grainy-greenish color, to a soundtrack of dirgeful medieval music, the Icelandic countryside (sheets of solid lava, mist rising from craggy fields) seems like another planet. Maybe it is--but then the whole picture harks back to an idea of man light-years away from...
ABDUCTED by Joseph E. Levine, chained in a dungeon with Steve Reeves (and a cast of thousands), the epic saga has arisen. In Hagbard and Signe the cinesaga stands up, wipes off the grade-C slime, and brings to film the stature of its literary counterpart...
...find the film's simple attitude towards its characters and their simple attitude towards each other a relief--or pitiful unrealism. Your reaction depends blatantly on the romance in your soul. Are you willing to submerge your modern psychological self-consciousness and accept that love can be that strong...
...coverage of last spring's events at Columbia and the causes--both direct and underlying--as anyone might have hoped. The Cox Report's description of the actions taken by the administrators, students, faculty members, and police corresponds pretty well with the events as shown in a recently-released film shown here a week ago Friday. The film was obviously favorable to the position of the student rebels, but the difference between the two lies in the emphasis. Where the film, for instance, made a great point of showing the camaraderie and sense of community of the students...
...Harvard community should be chastised for not submitting docilely to the spectacle of boredom and inarticulateness presented by Dietrich Wessel. It seems to me that Mr. Wessel's "history of German SDS" could have been better rendered by Michael Walzer in twenty minutes, or by a competent poet or film-maker in ten. Mr. Wessel was a failure as a rhetorician and as a disseminator of radical thought: that was the overriding reality of the Sept. 27 fiasco in Lowell Lec. He was simply out of touch with the mainstream spirit of the new radicalism. The kind of tiresome reasonableness...