Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Told in vignettes as agile and fragile as haiku, She and He lacks the substance of genuine tragedy, but Director Susumu Hani, a onetime documentary film maker, has given the picture a sense of on-location authenticity that transcends its simplistic symbolism. His casting, an amalgam of amateur and professional actors, is flawless. The blind girl literally lives her role; she is truly blind. The ragpicker (Sachiko Hidari), a painter who never acted before, is as narrow as a rice stalk, so emaciated that he sometimes seems to have two profiles in search of a face. But Hidari radiates...
...makeup. Last week, Bravo and one of his Angeleno protégés, Valley State College Historian Julian Nava, 39, were making the first major effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot, who has alienated the city's minorities by publicly opposing textbooks with added chapters on minority groups' contributions to America...
...overly expository, as if he were substituting lines for title cards reading, "Four days later," or "Meanwhile". But frequently his instinctive use of silent film mechanics works successfully. In silent comedy, one of the primary goals was to break down the defensive barriers between the audience and the film-maker by manipulating audience emotions to involve them in the action. Having discovered that audiences laughed at the misfortunes and embarrassments of other people, Mack Sennett, and later Chaplin, revelled in low comedy. Cahiers du Cinema theorizes that Countess breaks the barrier between audience and film-maker through...
PERSONA. A famous actress (Liv Ullman) and a nurse (Bibi Andersson) exchange personalities in this absorbing, if sometimes difficult, movie directed by Sweden's master film maker, Ingmar Bergman...
Although Litton is the king of conglomerates, its Stouffer deal may smack of what Justice Douglas called "product extension." Litton is, among other things, the biggest maker of microwave ovens, and Stouffer is one of the more advanced frozen-food processors. Together, they hope, to create dishes that can be baked or broiled in record time...