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...divorced heiress, who tells of her grandfather and her husband, two hard men who did not like each other. The grandfather, William Rowland, lives as he pleases on vast timberlands owned by his ancestors since the War of 1812. He pleases, as it turns out, to take a Negro mistress after his wife's death and fathers several children...
Bruce Conner, 30, begins his A Movie (which lasts only twelve minutes) with a shot of a young and magnificently shaped woman sitting in profile, like Whistler's Mistress, wearing only a black garter belt. Cut. Savage Indians are next, seen slaughtering defenseless pioneers. An elephant charges furiously. Racing cars crash in clouds of dust and fire. A girl lies languidly back on a bed. Dissolve to a submerged submarine shooting a torpedo. The H-bomb goes off. Motorcycles race through mud. A biplane crashes into a lake. That famous Tacoma bridge whips in the wind and collapses...
...mother, who was back in London, well informed of his escapades. Could his mother find a "nice, peaceful" cottage for a friend who was on the lam after shooting a man in a bar? Could his mother, please, come to Paris for a couple of weeks to get his mistress out of his hair? "I've come to that stage where I positively hate the sight of her, and I think we could amuse ourselves better without her. Still, in any relations but her love relations, she's amiable enough...
...first the story seems to be about Pierre (Hardy Kruger), a shell-shocked World War II flyer who has been supported and nursed back to a precarious stability by Madeleine (Nicole Couriel). She becomes his mistress and, though he remains sullen and distant in his illness, loves him with a half-maternal fierceness. Madeleine struggles towards his rehabilitation so that they may marry and "lead a moral life together." But Pierre secretly befriends Cybele, a twelve-year-old girl who has been abandoned by her parents to a local convent. Pretending to be her father, Pierre takes...
...gave the first performance of Sinfonia Sacra for Violin and Two Chamber Groups, written by John Harbison, Junior Fellow in Music, for his wife, concert-mistress and soloist last night. The BSO opened the program with William Boyce's Symphony...