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...intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must be given the solemn study once reserved for Holy Writ. In short, Nauman has had the full treatment. Mount Culture labors, and out he pops...
...American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place...
...Octavio Paz, Mexico's most distinguished poet and essayist (TIME, Jan. 29), impresses the reader as one of the most provocative thinkers in the West. Gracefully, lucidly, he talks of topics as diverse as the rebellion of modern youth ("an explosion of despair"), the art of Marcel Duchamp, Sade's philosophy ("His model is not a volcano, although he liked volcanoes very much, but cold lava"). Paz even notes the first feminist, Penthesilea, legendary queen of the Amazons, who ruled from "a throne of vertigo and tides...
...twice the savior of his country," and even today the Gaullists are reluctant to entrust the telling of the precious legend to anyone who might tamper with it. Nobody knows this better than French Film Makers Alain de Sédouy and André Harris, who (along with Director Marcel Ophuls) collaborated in 1969 on the superb documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, an exhaustive and exhausting (4½-hour-long) study of a French city under the Nazi Occupation (TIME, March...
...newsreels about Yorba Linda's favorite son, seems qualified to make the current film chiefly by his acquaintances with many of the painters featured, who from time to time address him affectionately as "De." Whatever unkind things might have been said in this space about the documentaries of Marcel Ophuls, De Antonio's interviewing technique clearly demonstrates how much Ophuls has in fact achieved. There are long pauses, inane phrases left hanging, and, all around, the obtrusiveness of the equipment--a long mike stuck in a painter's face, or a cameraman's shadow moving across the painting under discussion...