Word: petry
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...Elio Petri's A Quiet Place in the Country is a fine, unsettling ghost movie. But the spooks in this story are made of neuroses, not ectoplasm, and they haunt the mind, not the attic. Petri is crafty enough not to explain his spirits away, but clever enough at the same time to provide a rational explanation of all the freaky goings...
...interested in sensations as psychology, Director Petri forgoes the subtleties of a typical Jamesian ghost story to concentrate on visceral effects. The movie has many kinky and splendidly horrifying moments, including a sadistic nightmare, a daylight visitation in a garden, and a tumultuous seance sequence Franco Nero, in a difficult part, manages to convey just the right amount of obsessive menace;, while the excellent Vanessa Redgrave, in a simpler one lends to the proceedings a saving edge of meticulously rendered reality...
Monday, 10 p.m.: Johansen arrives in Manhattan, barely making a 6 p.m. flight from Madison. On the plane, he has made his first real study of the score. He has had plenty of experience. Trained in Berlin by Egon Petri, he played concerts in Europe for four years before moving to the U.S. in 1929. He has made five previous New York appearances, notably a 1966 performance of Busoni's challenging Piano Concerto. But now the magnitude of what he has undertaken overwhelms him. At a hotel, he recites "a prayer to Ludwig for help," and drops...
...film her new ghost-chiller A Quiet Place in the Country, was far from quiet. In fact, there seemed to be more shades underfoot than on the windows, which mysteriously slammed shut while chairs rattled unaided across floors, drawers floated out of place, and cameras smashed inexplicably. Director Elio Petri swore he bumped into-or through-a long-deceased ancestor of the villa's owner on the staircase one night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering, and production lagged five days behind schedule until Vanessa and Co-Star Franco Nero, her constant companion since they made...
...Petri's study group on state politics at the Institute of Politics will meet at 1 p.m. today at 78 Mt. Auburn Street. Mr. Steinbrunner's group on campaign decision-making will meet at 4 p.m. today at Holyoke Center 938. Yesterday's CRIMSON was wrong...