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...most famous fictitious pieces of music in all literature is the "Vinteuil theme" described by Marcel Proust in Remembrance of Things Past. Explored and dissected for pages, the theme not only prodded Proust's memory but also helped preserve the memory of Venezuela-born Composer Reynaldo Hahn. A pampered favorite of Parisian society. Hahn was the man on whom Proust modeled the character of Vinteuil, and at his death in 1947, Hahn was remembered chiefly for his friendship with Proust. Last week in Munich's Gärtner Theater, Hahn's little-known operetta, Ciboulette, was drawing...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'ldiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Between them, Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature, and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...
...Marcel Camus has surrounded a legend that was old when the Greeks told it, with the rhythm of Negro music and singing, with magic borrowed from a dozen lands, and finally with the beauty and color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, artfully blends bedroom farce and murder mystery. Julie Harris brings her gamin charm to the role of a chambermaid who wakes up in beds she never made...