Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst film, slavishly duplicates shot sequences from all Hitchcock's late work, climaxing in a dreadful track-in/zoom-out shot recreating Hitchcock's Vertigo distortion effect. God knows we can all learn from the Master. Nonetheless, Hitchcock-imitation is not one of Truffaut's more endearing stylistic traits and, light years behind his idol in quality, Truffaut's films have become increasingly insubstantial...
...scare those seeking light diversion, it must be mentioned that the program also included-cultural uplift. The opera Die Meisterslinger, composed by the Proposition's music director, John Forster, collated musical strains lifted from numerous operas. The work concerns a family tragically victimized by circumstance and a villainous slumlord. The son of the house, Juan Valdes, is a junky and a pimp, and the daughter Aida turns out to really be ... well, it's not fair to spoil the suspense...
...Boston suburb of Framingham. It was something of a temptation, being mounted on the left rear fender where any passerby could pry it loose. But not all was lost. The rascal didn't get the second candelabra on the other side, so there's still some light amid the darkness...
...official government euphemism was that programming was to be kept "light" to "put the French in a vacation spirit." The fact, however, was that 114 newsmen and producers of the O.R.T.F. (Office de Radio et Télévision Français) were on a paid holiday until September pending what Couve called "a profound reorganization." Their wages had been raised 13%, but the TV strike issue had been government censorship, not money. That complaint was still unresolved...
...part, as a result of a series of recent retrospectives in Zurich, Tokyo, London, New York, and now Los Angeles, which have brought out into the open many of his little-known works. They reveal Miró to be a remarkably diversified artist (see color pages). In the light of his full range, he stands forth today as astonishingly youthful, relevant and contemporary...