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Resnais's Stavisky is a cold film--a bored film, I think--without the cerebral pleasures of Resnais's earlier experiments in film technique, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, although traces of the narrative trademarks worked out in those films persist into this one. House of All Nations, for all the up-to-date sound of its "Credo," was written in 1936; it was an examination of a phenomenon that still existed. Stavisky is nostalgia for two things--first, for the eternal appeal of the rogue, the high-energy, affable cheap who spends more money than...
...World," he says--the disasters, selected because each represents the largest number of recorded fatalities from a specific cause, range from the Black Death of 1347-51 to the man-eating tigress shot in India's Champawat district in 1907 to the conventional and atomic bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima in 1945--might arguably be placed elsewhere than in the section on "HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS...
...than conventional explosives but produce no dangerous fallout either in the U.S.S.R. or abroad. As proof, they revealed hitherto secret details of a 1971 test along the canal route. It involved the simultaneous detonation of a row of three 15-kiloton nuclear charges (compared with 20 kilotons for the Hiroshima bomb), spaced about 500 ft. apart. The blasts produced so little radiation and such stable walls that technicians were able to walk along the rim of the 2,600-ft.-long crater only two days later. The only damages were some cracks in the brick ovens and wall plaster...
Resnals's Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Friday and Saturday...
...Hiroshima, Mon Amour Deadly...