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...Truffaut The Wild Child, one of the best, an unsentimental detailed and narratively pure chronicle of Dr. Itard's attempts to tram a wolf child for human society in Enlightenment France, and The Bride Wore Black, one of his least, a stale tale of vengeance dedicated to Hitchcock Friday. Red Desert, middle period Antomennui Sarris's phrase) with beautiful color is paired with Juliet of the Spirits Felinis unsuccessful attempt to do for a frustrated house wife what 8 1/2 did for a castrated male artist leading as well into the garish technique of his. Satyricon phantasmagoria which plays Saturday...
...HITCHCOCK has many times observed and demonstrated, murder is always more frightening when it occurs on a sunny afternoon while life is proceeding apace around you. The twins continue to play in the barn and plan their magic show while around them person after person dies in horrible circumstances due to the actions of the "bad" twin. Their insufferable cousin, jumping in the hayloft, lands on a carefully placed pitchfork. Their invalid mother is pushed down the stairs in the middle of the night when no one but them is there is to see. By day they are such charming...
...partly a result of better promotion by ABC, which, until April, was niggardly in buying newspaper ads and in plugging the show on its own air time. In addition, Cavett has worked to line up stronger guests-notably Jack Paar in two refreshing 90-minute appearances and Alfred Hitchcock in another-and he himself seems to have gained in confidence, becoming looser and brighter. Says Cavett: "There's a consciousness that every minute has to count and that every utterance is under scrutiny...
Frenzy, A surprise from the supposedly declining Hitchcock. A virtuosic mix of suspense with apt characterization and subliminal social comment, set, thank God, in London, the director's home town. For once, the audience cheers when the hero doesn't kill his enemy. CINEMAS 57 II: 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8:10, 10:20. Fiddler on the Roof. The musical comedy, for all its shmaltz, was great, and the film is a faithful transcription. Norman Jewison directs competently, Oswald Morris's photography is breathtaking, and Topol's Tevye--virile and touching. CHERII THEATER...
Frenzy. A surprise from the supposedly declining Hitchcock. A virtuosic mix of suspense with apt characterization and subliminal social comment, set, thank God, in London, the director's home town. For once, the audience cheers when the he doesn't kill his enemy. CINEMA 57 II: 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8:10, 10:20. Fritz the Cat. An animated send-up of youth, U.S. culture and things in general. Based, for the most part diligently, on R. Crumb's comic books, its pornography is irresistable, its funky satire entertaining on a very low level--making this a trap...