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DURING THE great schism in French cinema many years ago, when the New Wave reared its vicious little head, Francois Truffaut emerged on the side of the angels. A sentimentalist and romantic, Truffaut seemed to lose any grittiness he once had. The tough but compassionate voyeur lost the harsh edges, the very qualities much of the filmmaking world was exploring with a vengeance The Truffaut of The 400 Blows gave way to the Truffaut of The Man Who Loved Women and Day for Night. He treated even his most repellent characters with extraordinary affection. When Trauffaut took a role...
...folks at many S and Ls, though, that seems harsh. They say that their institutions will regroup and recoup, diversifying for the short term into other banking services, then re-emerging as mortgage lenders in a decade or so. Says Thomas Maley, chairman of Chicago Federal Savings and Loan: "Banks are impersonal, while we have loyalty, a solid customer base. Our survival will depend on our ability to adapt to change."A drop in interest rates would also help a great deal...
...movie company on location seals itself off from the outside world and creates its own vivid reality. The Last Metro focuses on a theatrical company trying to operate in German-occupied Paris during World War II while surrounded by Gestapo agents, censors, black-marketeers-an external reality too insistently harsh to be so easily avoided...
Thus Van Gogh's painting of the café terrace on the Place du Forum in Aries (1888), with its harsh contrasting color -deep nocturnal blue against yellow lamplight under the awning, streaks of orange opposing the absinthe green of the cafe tabletops-was both a direct act of natural vision and a tribute to Louis Anquetin's Avenue de Clichy: Five O'clock in the Evening, 1887. Anquetin, drawing on childhood memories of seeing his parental garden through stained-glass lozenges in the front door, had suffused his view of a Paris street in a deep...
...does pitiful Petrie get much help from his technical staff. John Alcott is a talented cinematographer, but, as Stanley Kubrick's favorite collaborator. Alcott has shown that he specializes in creating eerily sunny dream worlds where harsh lights and bright colors take on a chilling unreality. Alcott's style couldn't be more wrong for the South Bronx. When he does try to capture the ugliness of the locale, his photography becomes more grainy than gritty. And then, there's Rita Roland, from the Lizzie Borden School of Film Editing. Many times, she cuts away from a scene with...