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...MARCEL OPHULS RETROSPECTIVE Monday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m., Burr B, Matisse (1960), and Banana Peel (1964) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jeanne Moreau. Tues., Feb. 13, 8 p.m., Burr B., America Revisited (1971). Wed., Feb. 14, 8 p.m., Burr B, Munich, ou las Paix pour Cent Ans (1967). Thurs., Feb. 15, 8 p.m., Hilles Library Cinema Marcel Ophuls's best known film, Part I: The Collapse (1970). Fri., Feb. 16, 8 p.m., Hilles Library Cinema, Marcel Ophuls's best know film, Part II: The Choice. (1970). Admission to individual film programs $1. Series ticket $4 at Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary cross-section of Clermont Ferrand residents who lived through Occupied France, is, in the final analysis, a noble failure. It brings us up close to varying degrees of complicity and guilt and some causes for it, but the sheer bulk of its interviews and newsreel clips not only occasionally deadens, but gives the audience a misconceived faith in the completeness of Ophuls' very selective vision. Documentary talents like Ophuls' are hard to find, however, and they're needed desperately to slake a thirst for social commentary rarely touched by fiction filmmakers...
...SORROW AND THE PITY and A SENSE OF LOSS. Dealing respectively with the Resistance in France and contemporary Northern Ireland, these two films by Marcel Ophuls make up a uniquely personal and compassionate contribution to the cinema as essay...
...cynic must allow no one to exceed him; parity begins at home. That home can be designed by one of the world's great architects-Marcel Breuer. At 70, Breuer is not anxious to design houses. He will take on a dwelling, says his office, "if it allows him to explore new ideas." Such exploration would necessarily include "a nice site and a client who is not only nice but who will also allow construction without an economic struggle." Breuer's value is universally acknowledged. His price: 15% of the building's cost, the standard commission charged...
...sovereign's life as far as the death of Albert, her prince consort, in 1861. The author had access to the Royal Family Archives at Windsor, and her rich effort at historical reconstruction is one of the finest biographies in English since George Painter's classic Marcel Proust. It is also an engrossing love story. Woodham-Smith is a historian, not a Crawfie. Her romance, moreover, is told without sentimentality and is set against the forbidding complexities of 19th century European politics...