Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...films justification ended their director's careers, but several brilliant film-makers also emerged, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Chris Marker, and Jacques Demy. In the space of seven years, an unprecedented number of masterpieces were produced, among them Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and The Soft Skin, Godard's Contempt and The Married Woman, and Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, all of which will, incidentally, be shown at the Brattle this month...
Truffaut, meanwhile, has chosen to experiment with content rather than technique. His Shoot the Piano Player of 1960 and The Soft Skin of 1964 both maintain a tenuous balance between seriousness and self-parody, providing several layers of possible interpretation. Truffaut toys with the reactions of his audience, leading them by the nose into deeper involvement with his characters and then rebuffing them by suddenly turning the plot into a cliche. If you can maintain both distance and involvement simultaneously, Truffaut's films will lead to new perceptions about reality and illusion, about freshness and staleness. His other major film...
Eugene Indjic '69 has been invited by Eric Leinsdorf, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to play Branms' Second Piano Concerto at the War Memorial Auditorium on February...
...life. Raised in Hollywood by his divorced mother (who was born in Paris just a block away from Alkan's home), he appeared as a bit actor in several Jackie Cooper films, attended a professional school "for spoiled movie brats." At 20, with prize money he won in piano competitions, he went to Manhattan to study with Olga Samaroff Stokowski, Leopold's first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1946, Lewenthal toured the U.S. for three years. While...
...career. For three years, he lived out of a suitcase and slept on park benches. Promised a teaching job in Rio de Janeiro, he wrangled free passage on a steamer only to find upon his arrival that the job was nonexistent. Destitute, he went from door to door offering piano lessons, finally saved enough money to return to the U.S. in 1961. Deciding "to get myself out of the clutches of life for a while," he immersed himself in the "Alkanian labyrinths...