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Blessings on thee, TIME, for your beautiful review of the exquisite Father Panchali [Feb. 17]. When will these thick-skulled theater owners realize the cinemagoing public is fed to the teeth with limpid-eyed, loose-lipped...
...once remarked to the late Fred Allen. "Yeah," he rasped. "As long as the line at the box office." Last week Manhattan's so-called art theaters refused to give a line a chance to form for a major work of art, a film from India called Father Panchali. The theater operators decreed that the picture did not measure up to their standard-the gold standard. Explained one manager baldly: "The picture...
...Father Panchali won a Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956. Last December it took first prize at the San Francisco International Festival, has been running for nearly two months at the city's Vogue Theater, the only public screen it has found in the U.S. In London, where it did excellent business, the Observer called it "tremendously affecting," and the New Statesman rated it "a masterpiece." Written, directed and produced by a 36-year-old Indian named Satyajit Ray. the film describes the slow decline and quiet fall of a family in an Indian village. Homely...
Since a foreign picture cannot be booked in most U.S. cities without Manhattan reviews, Father Panchali will almost certainly not be booked elsewhere in the U.S. Meantime, Manhattan's art houses looked more than ever like tart houses, as their marquees showed: The Adulteress ("absorbing drama of sin"), And God Created Woman (starring Brigitte Bardot), Sins of Casanova ("wicked"), The Bride Was Much Too Beautiful (Brigitte Bardot), Smiles of a Summer Night ("bawdy, nawdy"), The Light Across the Street (Brigitte Bardot...