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...give the student a general but still comprehensive intellectual background. Unfortunately, the system soon began to falter; as the number of Gen Ed courses multiplied, their relationship to the general, introductory goals of the program became more dubious. In recent years such courses as "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" found their way into the Gen Ed listings -- while of undoubted intellectual merit (at least usually), they didn't quite seem designed to produce a class of Renaissance men and women. Moreover, certain other courses sprang up that appeared designed to accomodate the needs of specific clienteles: the Natural Science coruse...
...something big is going on. Finally, of course, unavoidable evidence develops, and we cut to the chase. Alas, Director Colin Higgins has no higher skill in staging action than he does in inventing original comic situations. The most he can manage is some vulgar shock effects and a few Hitchcock ripoffs...
WITH THE POSSIBLE exception of Alfred Hitchcock, Philippe de Broca must be Cambridge's favorite director. After all, it was de Broca's universally acknowledged masterpiece King of Hearts that ran in Cambridge for over five years, gathering a dedicated following and becoming something of an initiation rite for nascent Cantabrigians, from 1971 until 1976. But no one had heard from de Broca in the past few years; the man who brought us King of Hearts and, once upon a time, That Man from Rio, seemed to have disappeared. Well, de Broca fans can rest assured that their...
Brattle Theater--Brattle St.--Alfred Hitchcock Festival continues--through Sunday, Notorious, 5:30, Rebeca...
Brattle Theater--Brattle Street--Hitchcock Festival: The Lady Vanishes, through Sunday 5, 8:15; Foreign Correspondent, through Saturday, 5:50, 9:30; Young and Innocent, through Saturday, 8; The Man Who Knew Too Much, Sunday through Tuesday, 6:35, 9:35; Sabotage, Sunday through Tuesday...