Word: owen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's the sort of tabula rasa author-director Don Owen has constructed. His ill-concealed secret is that he himself hasn't the foggiest what poor Peter needs. Nor have any of his actors. More discipline? More freedom? Less pressure? More responsibility? Love and approbation? A swift kick in the rear...
...Owen chanced upon two enormously gifted young actors. With them, he has made an affecting, absolutely believable film. Had he understood his situation more deeply, more intimately, he might have offered us more. What was required behind the camera was not dogmatism; only a point of view...
NOBODY WAVED GOODBYE. With improvised action and dialogue, Writer-Director Don Owen, a gifted young Canadian, mounts a spontaneous, surprisingly poetic essay about two affluent delinquents (Peter Kastner and Julie Biggs) swimming against the stream of life in suburban Toronto...
...Negro Cowboys tries to explain the literary genocide that has erased the Negro from modern Westerns. According to Philip Durham and Everett Jones, two English teachers at U.C.L.A., the whitewashing of the legendary West began with Owen Wister's The Virginian, published in 1902. In an age that self-consciously hefted the white's man's burden and deplored the racial defects of immigrants, Wister gloried in the virtues of noble "Saxon boys" who conquered the frontier. Having met few Negroes in his own travels out West, Wister could see no reason to sully the racial purity of his novel...
...fourth movement, Miss Owen joined the orchestra. Her performance alternated between the restrained sweetness and relaxed gaiety that the score demands. The lyrics are meant to express the plenty of Heaven, and operatic flourishes would be completely inappropriate. Miss Owen abandoned her Verdian fire-works and sang with pure, sweet...