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...Director: Marcel Ophuls, a documentary by Paul Michaud, Hum sectionman and head of Les Films Sirene...
ISRAEL WHY is a three-hour-plus French documentary that explains very little but testifies to Director Claude Lanzmann's feeling of deep kinship with the country. Lanzmann is not, like Marcel Ophuls, a film essayist of strong and disturbing insight, and he is not an especially acute documentarian either. He has caught some moments of warmth, others of search and irresolution and precipitate fulfillment, but the question posed in the title remains unanswered...
...Died. Gabriel Marcel, 83, French dramatist, critic, musician and philosopher; of a heart attack; in Paris. A Roman Catholic and a pioneering existentialist who preferred the designation "Neo-Socratic," Marcel rejected abstract thinking as a solution to man's moral problems. Instead, he struggled to define a concrete philosophy that would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). -Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH: Une Simple Histoire by Marcel Hanoun, and The Miracle by Rossellini starring Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini...
...exhibition forever annihilates the notion of Duchamp as enfant terrible breaking windows in the temple of art. From the beginning, Marcel, the son of an haul bourgeois notary in Rouen, was recognized as a prodigy. At 17 he joined his brothers in Paris to study art; in a 1904 work his technique already reveals a mature painter under the heavy, almost suffocating influence of the past. Even The Chess Players (1911) bears the shadow of Cezanne in its formal palette and in the calculated arrangement of figures. The rebel remains disguised in traditional tones−or in the Fauvists...