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HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, Institutional Quality by Goerge Landow and Open City by Roberto Rossellini, starring Anna Magnani, Oct. 4, 7:30, $1, The Astronomer's Dream by Georges Melies and Paisan by Roberto Rossellini...
...researcher, Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi), is summoned to Tara by his slain father's mistress (Alida Valli). A statue of the senior Magnani, resting upon a pedestal bearing the legend "vilely murdered by Fascist bullets," stands in the town square, surveying all who pass with unformed, unchiseled eyes...
...Spider's Stratagem also contains what has become by now a hallmark of every Bertolucci film, a scene of dancing done with a certain intense but stately vigor. Here, the elder Magnani takes a partner and leads her proudly and gracefully round the dance pavilion, demonstrating his contempt for the astonished Blackshirts standing on the sidelines. It is a lovely, graceful scene, and suggests another title for the film, First Polka in Tara. Not as apt, perhaps, but probably more commercial. - Jay Cocks
...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Anthony Quinn reaches comic-opera stature as the roistering, boozy Bombolini, who becomes the town's hero as he cons the invading Germans out of nearly 1,000,000 bottles of vermouth. Anna Magnani as Rosa, his strong-willed wife, proves every bit the match for Bombolini-not to mention the Nazis...
...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Anthony Quinn as the roistering, boozy Bombolini, and Anna Magnani as his unrelentingly strong-willed wife, Rosa, make a powerful combination...