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...thirteen Friday and Saturday nights you can see the all-time film classics in the Sack Theatres "Cinma Spectrum" series. Starting Feb. 16, the series will include Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard," Rossellini's "Open City," John Ford's "Grapes of Wrath," a set of Chaplin shorts, and Jean Renoir's "A Day in the Country." Get your tickets while they last...
...Louis XIV, and films made in 1967 but not yet shown here (Bunuels' Belle de Jour, Godard's La Chinoise). To make things simpler, I eliminate European films made over two years ago but released in New York during 1967. Andrew Sarris has included Bunuels' Exterminating Angel and Renoir's Boudou saved From Drowning on his list; I would also mention Godard's Le Petit Soldat and Marker's Le Mystere Koumiko, were they eligible under my own rules. The films are listed in order of personal preference...
...sure, these are different studios from the one-man autocracies that used to welcome creative geniuses like France's Jean Renoir with lavish contracts and then crush their talent with assembly-line production techniques. The old dinosaurs in the corner offices have finally given way to younger dinosaurs. Robert Evans of Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily...
...boulevards more realistically than did the later impressionists. Last week the museum unveiled a Rubens Holy Family, depicting Jesus and Mary with Joseph, the infant St. John the Baptist and his mother St. Elizabeth (see color overleaf). Its fiery red, electric blues and ripe flesh tones show why Renoir (represented in Chicago by 19 oils and four drawings) looked to Rubens for inspiration...
...critics was the caliber of the work. "Fabulous!" raved the critic for the prestigious Neue Zurcher. "A collection of many practically unknown masterpieces." Particularly admired were two Van Goghs, a Landscape of Auvers painted just three weeks before his death in 1890 and an 1886 self-portrait. A voluptuous Renoir, After the Bath, painted in 1876, is the twin to one in Moscow's Push kin Museum. Also on view are outstand ing paintings by Cezanne, Delacroix, Millet, Manet, Monet, Degas and Corot. But, for many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches...