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...will remain together; in La Notte, Giovanni and Lidia decide not to separate although they know their marriage will never be successful; Red Desert ends with Giuliana's realization that she must not commit suicide even if her life is filled with neurotic unhappiness. Unlike the films of Rosselini, Hitchcock, and Renoir, which follow characters in a state of emotional or spiritual crisis through a therapeutic chain of events, Antonioni's films are rarely concerned with major personal development or change. Instead, Antonioni fully reveals the nature of his character's dilemma, and then brings that character to a kind...
None of these will be new, either (though it's true there aren't many spy-westerns hanging around). Every thing has been done before, and in nine out of ten cases by Alfred Hitchcock. But if the writers and directors of spy movies feel free to borrow from The Lady Vanishes, Notorious, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, and on down the line, they have almost universally suffered by the comparison thus brought upon themselves...
Making of a Fake. What are the commonest imitations? Grotz lists 18th century and early 19th century cast-iron toys, banks and trivets, wooden signs, student lamps, Sandwich glass, Hitchcock chairs and Franklin stoves (the copies cost as much as the originals). Another popular fake is the "ancestor" painting-an anonymous portrait that the dealer sells by observing that it looks so much like the customer. As for Early American cabinetwork, the author estimates that no less than 80% of what is passed off today as 18th century dry sinks-and chests of drawers is in fact mass-produced, late...
Friday, January 6 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC. 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guest Star Victor Borge plays a scientist who takes his cue from Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and sets his secrets to music to keep them from evil hands...
CuldeSac. Roman Polanski, 33, is the Paris-born Pole who three years ago captured an international audience with a precocious thriller called Knife in the Water. Knife in hand, this switchbloc Hitchcock then went West and persuaded British producers to finance a small masterpiece of menace called Repulsion. His third film, also made in England, is a jittery-tittery comedy of terrors in which Polanski hones his slapstick to a razor-edge...