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ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO Weekend, 4, 7:45 11:30 Pierrot Le Fou 5:45, 9:30, (Sat 2 pm) MIDNITE SHOW FRI & SAT Busby Berkeley's The Gangs All Here...
Contempt...or Godard, the master of pretension, with a big budget to play around with and a Moravia short story to demolish. With Pierrot le Fou, a self-serving and clumsy Godard comic-book romance, with a naive artist-gangster as the hero, and topical references sprinkled throughout to no great purpose. ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO. Call...
...belts a week through East Coast boutiques and Manhattan's Bloomingdale's. Socialite Ethel Scull buckled one over a black-jersey jumpsuit, appeared at a black-tie party looking less bonny than Clyde; Model Carole Mallory wore hers to an art auction and was an instant succes fou-she got immediate attention from the security guards...
...picks up his wife-to-be with the full intention of marrying her. Comprehending his possibilities and limitations, he can neither renounce the world and become a saint, nor marry Maud. who is a free-thinker. Either way, to want everything or nothing, you've got to be crazy, fou, and by nature Jean-Louis is serieux -rational, dialectical...
Godard further made the subject of each film work as its method. Thus Pierrot le Fou is a romance (subject) realized in flowing colors, soaring music, and a hero whose journey through this setting is the motive and organizing force of the drama (method). Individual alienation becomes the method of Breathless through a hero who conducts a very detached investigation of his surroundings. Weekend's subject is general alienation in a capitalist society, and its method is to follow characters through a bourgeois countryside. But these characters, being alienated themselves, have no serious moral responses to the terrible events they...