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...this weather, you should really be outside: Carpenter Center boasts a sculpture-fountain (Stainless steel and moving water) by Susumu Shingu, a good way to satisfy both aesthetic and physical needs. But if Museum-tromping is imposed upon you, console yourself with Renoir's "Bal a Bougival" at the MFA. A regular exhibit that nobody talks about much, but it's the most beautiful painting in Boston...
Harvey formed Janus Films, without a doubt the most important force in establishing foreign film as an art form in this country. Janus and Harvey brought over all the remaining Bergmans, the first Truffaut, Renoir's two best films--in fact, for a decade or so almost all the important foreign films to come to this country. Harvey, Truffaut, Bergman and most of the others have no part in the Janus operations any more, but the company still has close ties to Harvey's Harvard-Central-Brattle chain, as the Brattle programming and the periodic Janus festivals at the Square...
Which of course led to duplication with the Brattle. At one point both theaters were running a Jean Renoir film festival at the same time. Eventually Peter Jaszi '68, a student at Harvard Law School who programmed for Gitter, began to restrict the Welles mainly to American films, in keeping with Gitter's original theory. At this point Jaszi began the laudable Welles format of keeping a directorial retrospective going on in at least one of the theaters--the practice that has disappeared today. Jaszi, now a lawyer for the American Film Institute, also began the film appreciation class that...
...Irish girl whom the Pompadour pro cured for her flagging monarch by the utterly rococo device of getting Boucher to paint her as the Virgin Mary in a decoration for one of the royal chapels. She is the ancestor of all the midinettes and grisettes and rotund milkmaids that Renoir was to paint a century later...
...original material for Siddhartha--the book itself--was no gem, but the basic setting and action has potential. Louis Malle (Phantom India) and Jean Renoir (The River), along with Satyajit Ray and his Apu trilogy, have shown that India's culture is fascinating on film. And Kon Ichikawa made a brilliant Japanese film called The Burmese Harp about a soldier burying the unknown dead after the World War II defeat, giving the story of a religious ascetic roaming the countryside incredible resonance and conviction...