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Viridiana (Kingsley International). In the first reel of the first important film directed by Spain's Luis Bunuel, something surreal called Un Chien Andalou (1929), the camera watches closely as Bunuel himself opens a straight razor and with surgical precision slits a woman's eyeball. From that frame forward, Moviemaker Bunuel left no doubt in anybody's mind that he intends to open people's eyes. In his masterpiece, Los Olmdados (1950), he opened people's eyes to the horrors of poverty in the Mexican slums. In Viridiana, a strange but powerful film that contains...
...baker collects the unglamorous rewards of virtue: hard work, self-respect, the love of the German family. When the farmer is drafted, the baker quietly becomes the man of the house, running the farm and protecting the wife and children as if they were his own. In the last reel, Cayatte adroitly points the moral: liberation makes the baker truly a free man, but it leaves the journalist still a slave to his own weakness...
Hollywood, after years of profitably cranking out fodder to feed TV's terrible tapeworm, has almost relegated the theatrical film- once its 18-carat bread and butter-to the limbo of relics along with the two-reel comedy and the Mighty Wurlitzer. Last week filmdom's labor leaders, in an effort to lock the studio door after the horse opera had gone, enlisted the aid of the House Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment to do something about the problem of "runaways"-films made overseas by U.S. companies. The hard fact...
Inside, they were singing, "One of these days about twelve o'clock/This ol' world's gonna reel and rock." One song leader suggested that the audience try to think up verses about SANE to fit the tune "Hey Lolly-Lolly-Lo." A man in the back of the room gamely called out "Let's be game and Join SANE." They gave...
...earthquake rumbled through Braintree, Mass. Shaken awake by the tremors, a 20-year-old schoolteacher was so impressed that he forthwith began a diary ("The house seemed to rock and reel"). These scratched words were the first of what was to become one of the great avalanches of words in U.S. history. The schoolteacher was John Adams, who became the U.S.'s first Vice President, its second President, and the patriarch of a remarkable clan of statesmen and historians that ranged from his son, John Quincy Adams the sixth President, to Charles Francis Adams,* Secretary of the Navy under...