Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SATURDAY: Forbidden Games. Rene Clement's Oscar-winning 1952 anti-war film...
...branches in 25 countries still run about $180 million ahead of those of McCann Erickson, its closest rival. Though Thompson does not have a reputation as a supercreative agency, many of its campaigns, including "The taste people hate twice a day" for Listerine, "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener," and "Seven-Up, the Uncola" have won respect from both clients and competitors. Why, then, the earnings slide...
...Emigrants, the story of many good people besides Kari Oscar (who is only particularly strong), opens up our understanding to the extent that we can take full pride in these alien peoples' achievements. It is, above all, a noble film...
TROELL CHRONICLES the migration of eight impoverished Swedes, from their emotionally cramped life in the rural province of Smaland, to their gradual disillusionments with that life; from their ten-week voyage to America to their initial settlement in Minnesota. He follows two main groups: the family of farmer Kari Oscar Neilson, and the religious cell of a preacher-sansordinance, Danjell (uncle of Kristina, Neilson's wife). Both groups are directly impelled to emigrate by personal oppression on the part of their overlords (the sheriff, the constable, the deacon, the churchwarden...
...first third of the film, is a test for proud men. The land is not fertile. The weather is capricious. The parson sells liquor, and the sheriff, even if he is a nice fellow, is at the mercy of the richest landowners. The situation produces heartbreaking images: Karl Oscar's father, crippled when a stone he had removed falls back on him, is carried home from the fields on the back of his stolid country wife (in long shot); or the little girl, lit by her mother's torch, wails with a burst stomach, next to a wooden bowl...