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Pauline Kael, LL.D., film critic, The New Yorker. Like Godard with his guillotine lens, she writes with an often acerbic pen, cutting through the can of films that threaten to dehumanize us. William McC. Martin Jr., LL.D., former Federal Reserve Board chairman...
Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard. Winthrop JCR. 7:30. May 11. Free. Also at Norton Hall. Fogg Museum. 9 a.m., May 12. Free...
Alphaville by Godard. Winthrop House JCR. 7:30, May 4. Free...
...impact of Resnais's films, the strength and innovation of their style, suggests the romanticized image of the forceful and eccentric creator-director, a la Godard or Bergman. In fact, Resnais unpretentiously claims a much lesser role for himself in the making of a film. During his visit to Harvard the last week in March, as a guest of Mather House, Dunster House, and Carpenter Center, Resnais spoke of the practical limits and hazards of film direction. He conveyed a shy elegance, and graceful composure reminiscent of his days as an actor. In speaking, his characteristic gesture is a smiling...
...Conformist features the year's freshest colors, passionate direction, and a beautiful girl who can act, Dominique Sanda. It is also meaningfully ridden with guilt and melancholy. Filmmaker Bernardo Bertollucci--once a Godard acolyte--here encloses himself in circular storytelling and claustrophobic environment. A repressed homosexual (Jean-Louis Trintignant) turns to Fascism to become one of the boys, can't cut the mustard even then, and finally returns to simpering solitude when Mussolini falls. The film examines the paths decadence travels in a decrepit society: note that the liberal professor whom Trintignant reveres fled Italy when his student most needed...