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"I have given my life to St. Thomas, and labor to spread his doctrine. For I, too, want intelligence to be taken from the Devil and returned to God." So wrote Philosopher Jacques Maritain to Poet Jean Cocteau 47 years ago. And when Maritain died on April 28, at the...
Scorn. That despair suddenly dissolved when they heard lectures at the College de France by Philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theories of creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a...
MY UNCLE ANTOINE is a standout made in Quebec, an area that has not produced great films in the past, yet it is far more than a pleasant surprise. Director Claude Jutra and scenarist Clement Perron treat the central subject of a boy's early adolescence with greater exuberance and...
BURR HALL: French Film Festival: May 11: Talk by Henri Langlois and presentation of a rare film from his Cinematheque collection, 7:30. May 12: Jean Eustache, Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes with Jean-Pierre Leaud, 7:30, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue, 9:30...
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS has a raucous, picaresque, raunchy kind of charm, at least initially. Two black con men (Raymond St. Jacques and Philip Thomas) descend on an Arkansas town called El Dorado during the early '30s to start a numbers bank. Thomas has a rather meandering love affair...