Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film with which to close a series entitled "The Crisis in Narrative Cinema" than Robert Bresson's Pickpocket. Bresson's work is highly individualistic, representative of no particular movement in the current cinema, and thus almost alone among current French filmmakers he has not benefitted by the surge of interest in the new-wave in this country. This is particularly unfortunate since Bresson is one of the few truly great living directors, and the unavailability of his films here makes us truly poorer indeed. Pickpocket, made in 1959, represents the very essence of Bresson's work: tightly controlled, carefully delineated...
...class," the son of a housemaid and a failed shopkeeper. After failing himself as a draper's assistant, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in South Kensington, where Thomas Huxley was teaching biology at the time. It was Huxley who first excited Wells' interest in science. But young Wells' omnivorous curiosity-always subject to other intellectual temptations -was diverted into Fabian socialism, literature and debating. Putting more and more time into self-education, he muffed his degree examinations. As a schoolmaster exiled to the borders of Wales, he was stomped in the back...
...have a thing. Most people have, and most adolescents do their own every so often. In the interest of variety, however, the lounges in the Freshman Union will be open Friday nights to help find someone else...
...tune. The biggest single complaint I would register against the performance was lack of ensemble. Notes must not only be played in sequence linearly but the parts must line up vertically as well. The rhythmic impression stole the vitality from a piece already somewhat lacking in rhythmic interest...
...flow of the beautiful melodies, lines which sing and soar over the often complex texture of this magnificent quintet. The new quality in their playing was the ability to sustain an idea to its conclusion. The "Dumka" section, a long movement, was well controlled, well balanced and one's interest was held to the end. The contrast between the first and second halves was so stunning that the faults of the second are buried...