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...Avventura (Cino del Duca; Janus), made in Italy by a respected but little-known moviemaker named Michelangelo Antonioni, is a nightmarish masterpiece of tedium, a parable of spiritual purgation, a myth for the Anxious...
...Virgin Spring (Svensk Filmindustri: Janus), the latest work of Ingmar Bergman (TIME, March 14), is a violently beautiful miracle play, an apocalyptic parable in which good and evil, Christian and pagan powers collaborate in a divine rebirth, the continuous nativity of love...
Dreams (Sandrews; Janus Films) is the second installment of the shrewdly ironic, lewdly hilarious trilogy, beginning with A Lesson in Love (1953) and ending with Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), in which Sweden's Ingmar Bergman (TIME cover, March 14) submits his front-line report on the war between the sexes. In Lesson, the war begins with crockery barrages. In Smiles, it ends in a saraband of sophisticated satire that the winners and the losers dance together. In Dreams, the last of the three released in the U.S., the battle rages in full fury, and Bergman zooms above...
...Lesson in Love (Svensk Filmindustri; Janus), the most natural, robust and heartily funny of Ingmar Bergman's comedies, is for the most part a riskily sophisticated satire on the tiny, interminable adventures of any Dagwood and every Blondie. Made in 1953, two years before Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night summed up his ironic discussion of the domestic predicament, A Lesson in Love lacks the assurance and allegoric precision of that picture. Instead it is warm, accidental, lifelike, full of lucky hits, preposterous misses, and all sorts of surprises. A comedy of morals as well as manners...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars (Janus Films). Russia's Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) has been described as the Michelangelo of the cinema. In the '20s, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World and Old and New established him as the film's greatest master of vast composition and dynamic form. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, he started work on a huge film chronicle of the reign of Ivan the Terrible. For Part 1, which was shown in the U.S. (TIME, April 14, 1947), Eisenstein won a Stalin Prize...