Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris Vu Par's younger directors, Jean Douchet is most successful with a story about an American girl who, after trying to "find herself" through adventures with Paris and two boys, is forced in a final frontal head-on shot to confront herself...
...OTHER films, Jean Rouch's "Garedu Nord" is perhaps equally stunning and disturbing. Rouch who, along with Chris Marker, invented Cinema-verite (the difference between Maker and Rouch and the recent American copies is roughly that between the incredible Hitchcock of Vertigo and the bankrupt Polanski of Repulsion) is a master at forcing an audience to change their sympathies. Fantastically aware of the possibilities of a frame, Rouch can totally confuse a complacent viewer by having an actress turn her body about thirty degrees and in so doing undermine her earlier sympathetic position. In "Gare du Nord" these abrupt shifts...
Also on the program is a short feature by the young German Jean-Marie Straub. He has obviously read enough Bazin to know that objects and settings are crucial to films. His application of this, however, is to give the audience a shot of a setting, have the actors walk in and perhaps rearrange some objects, and finally leave the audience to contemplate the setting some more. Straub apparently does not like to cut within a scene, the result being a tremendous number of disconnected short sequences which leave one with no sense of what one character is trying...
Born. To Zoe Caldwell, 35, Australian actress who won a Tony for her first big Broadway hit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Robert Whitehead, 53, her producer in the play: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...Wave's conception of film comes from Neo-Realism (Antonioni, visconti, Rossellini, de Sica, Fellini). Neo Realism's original choice of social reality for subject-matter and its tendency to documentary as method had a tremendous influence in France, giving rise to a large school of French documentarists (Jean Rouch, Chris Marker) and a larger consciousness of film as more that a purely fictional narrative medium. Andre Bazin, father of modern film criticism, stressed the integrity of the photographed event, the virtue of films which preserve a measure of reality's implicit ambiguity instead of analyzing reality for perfect clarity...