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Viridiana (Kingsley International). In the first reel of the first important film directed by Spain's Luis Bunuel, something surreal called Un Chien Andalou (1929), the camera watches closely as Bunuel himself opens a straight razor and with surgical precision slits a woman's eyeball. From that frame forward, Moviemaker Bunuel left no doubt in anybody's mind that he intends to open people's eyes. In his masterpiece, Los Olmdados (1950), he opened people's eyes to the horrors of poverty in the Mexican slums. In Viridiana, a strange but powerful film that contains...
...early '50s, some British poets announced themselves as The Movement, a loose flock of low-flying larks (among them Donald Davie, Thorn Gunn, Kingsley Amis, John Wain) who sang in the same octave quietly. They favored a formal elegance, but at the same time retained the note of natural speech, the "neutral tone" of voice in which the British customarily discuss love, death and the weather...
...prospect delights British industry, which has so far handed Churchill $8,400,000. It appalls such purist dons as Novelist (Lucky Jim) Kingsley Amis of Peterhouse, who protests that "a university does not exist to serve society, and must never...
...Five-Day Lover (Kingsley International), for about an hour and a half, is the year's funniest movie, a pouf of glittering froth from France. And then, as though the camera were slowly drawing back, the context of the comedy widens and the laughter dies in the spectator's belly as he perceives that the froth is bubbling from the lips of a corpse, from the sores of a rotting civilization. The effect is disturbing and profound. In his third feature film Director Philippe de Broca (The Love Game, The Joker) emerges as a narrow but brilliant comic...
...Summer to Remember (Mosfilm; Kingsley) is a Russian film, the 16th in the current exchange program, that will surely surfer at the U.S. box office from the painful pre-release publicity devised by the A-bombinable Showman in the Kremlin. Nevertheless, U.S. moviegoers who care to look behind the headlines at some of the more agreeable aspects of life in Soviet Russia will find this picture a delightful excuse to get in and out of the fallout. Summer tells a hearty, happy, natural, touching and sometimes gorgeously funny story of a little boy's life in Russia today...