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...Jean Renoir, the French film director, saw his first movies in a Jesuit school where the fathers, " as they everywhere are, were in love with show business." He smiled at the Ivy Film types crowding the Loeb and continued to describe how one small boy who went to the movies on Saturday afternoon grew up to be the director of The Grand Illusion...
Canvas on Polyester. In Malraux's opinion, the original mistake was that the old ceiling had not been painted by a Delacroix, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Redon or Pissarro. Since none of them are alive, he redecorated...
...designs her own sportswear (though she plays no sport but gin rummy) but lets Guy Laroche run up her dresses. She owns a dozen fur coats, a Goya, a Renoir, a Fiat and a Rolls-Royce. She applies her perfume to her clothes, rather than to her skin. Her favorite scent is a mixture of geraniol, rhodinol, cedryl, acetate, jasmine, geranium, santal, patchouli, oak moss and Tibetan musk. It is called "Madame Rochas...
That purpose, unfortunately, has been greatly obscured by overly appreciative critics. The New York Review of Books could express its raptures only by predicting the imminent eclipse of Renoir, Resnais, and Fellini. This is ludicrous. To compare Kubrick with European directors is to denigrate the achievements of both. Kubrick attempts no subtle characterization, and few cinematic tricks. Using, rather than probing, neuroses, he fills his screen with comic stereotypes, all conventionally focused in stark black and white. Except for several shots of mushroom clouds and B-52's, the movie could easily be adapted to the stage...
IMPRESSIONISTS-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. A wealth of French impressionist work in various media ranging from an 1860 Boudin to a 1920 Monet. Other familiar names: Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Cassatt, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Through...