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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Alfred Hitchcock's thriller-chiller, The Birds (1962), starring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy and Suzanne Pleshette...
Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn. A knowledge of the best in American film art (the work of Griffith, Hawks, Ford, and Hitchcock, for example) leads us to the conclusion that great films come instinctively to their makers, that thematic depth is rarely the product of an analytical intellect working deliberately toward that end behind the camera. The elements in Bonnie and Clyde, on the other hand, have been chosen with some care; each shot has a function largely conceived at a planning stage, and Arthur Penn can give us a reason for any given angle, lens, or shadow. Following...
Thursday, December 7 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-1 1 p.m.). Under Capricorn. Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Gotten, Michael Wilding and Margaret Leighton are the stars in this 1949 Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a rehabilitated convict and his household in 19th century Australia...
Even during the past decade, when the creative impulse in film has seemed to be the province of European directors, Hollywood has turned out movies that at least in retrospect, have the qualities of classics. Hitchcock's Psycho inaugurated America's cinema of cruelty, with a demonic amalgam of bloodshed and violence that was not equaled until Bonnie and Clyde. Stanley Kubrick's Lolita treated the forbidden subject of nymphet-mania with cool humor; his Dr. Strangelove demonstrated that the biliousness of black comedy was as American as the H-bomb. John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian...
...them, and so looks forward to the rigors of daily criticism. Her taste in movies is eclective: she professes to like westerns along with Fellini. There is one obstacle. Like her predecessor, she is repelled by excessive violence, and walked out during the knifing in the shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho. "I have a problem about horror movies," she says, "that I suppose I will have to get over...