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...series The Men Who Made the Movies. Produced, written and directed by Author and TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel, The Men concludes next week with a profile of King Vidor. The other past masters of American cinema profiled on the series: Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman...
...acute and often hilarious interviews are illuminated with clips from some 108 films, including rare footage from Hitchcock's silent The Lodger and Vincente Minnelli's neglected adaptation of Madame Bovary. Some of the films reveal youthful naivete; a few are outright embarrassments. But most are works of honest craft, and a surprising number are examples of authentic...
Vigorous Egos. On occasion, the camera lets the speaker enlighten the audience at his own expense: Alfred Hitchcock's comparison of a murder in Torn Curtain with the holocaust of Auschwitz betrays a pompous misreading of history. Howard Hawks' decrying of self-consciousness is contradicted by the rigidities of Red River. For the most part, however, the directors are shown as canny and incorrodable professionals, sustained by vigorous memories and egos. Schickel makes no attempt to hide their flaws: Frank Capra often lurches from sentimentality to unabashed bathos; William Wellman, Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks appear to have...
THURSDAY: Men Who Made Movies. PBS documentary series on producers and directors focuses tonight the great master, Hitchcock. The program concentrates on Hitchcock's terrify psychological method with clips for "Psycho," "Torn Curtain," "Shadow Doubt," "Frenzy," "North by Northwest and "Saboteur." CH.44 9 p.m. Color...
Plus a selection of outstanding but more frequently shown, films around town: Bergman's psychological masterpiece, Person. High Noon, possibly the finest Western ever made. Hitchcock's intriguing Dial M for Murder. The famous Betty Boop cartoons. Bogdanovich's Paper Moon, and Woody Allen hilarious Bananas...