Word: rit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SPECIAL OF THE WEEK, PBS's Monday-night alternative to pro football and Laugh-In, opened with a documentary by Fred Wiseman, the most accomplished director of the cinéma vérité genre (Titicut Follies, Hospital). This time, in Basic Training, he focused on the rigors and the ridiculousness of boot camp in the summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, but he neglected to report the substantial reforms that have swept over the Army since. The result is an engrossing film but failed journalism. This week the PBS Special is a revival...
...journey is Glen and Randa, a primitive, desperate odyssey by the last bewildered survivors of an atomic holocaust, stumbling through the wreckage of a vanished civilization. Neither moralizing sci-fi nor melodrama, despite its fanciful premise, the film is rather like a cinéma vérité doomsday documentary-a parable in newsreel form...
Even thus threatened, Tiomkin stands firm in the camp of cinéma nonvérité. "We're not doing an étude of complex homosexualist for small audience," he says. "We're aiming at a mass audience. We want to give a little bit picture of the man, to give overall feeling that's very melodious...
Limp and Sensuous. When the Richardsons saw how delighted the Rit people were with their four-day efforts, they decided to peddle their designs on their own. One interior decorator who saw the contents of Will Richardson's sample case suggested that Will drop downstairs and see Halston, the brilliant young milliner and fashion designer. Two hours later, Richardson walked out with a $5,000 order. Halston has designed much of his new collection in Up Tied tie-dyes-even including a group of tie-dyed slouch hats. He loves the medium's "limp, sensuous quality," he says...
...couple King chose for his cinéma vérité exegesis had been his friends for almost five years. Billy Edwards, 42 years old, is a Toronto adman who had just moved into a cushy suburban-modern house with his wife Antoinette, their infant son Bogart and the family dog, Merton. A cinematographer and a soundman, under King's direction, spent ten weeks in the Edwards' home, arriving before breakfast and not leaving until everyone had gone to bed. They filmed everything: meals and holidays, affection and indifference, disagreements and brawls. The result is a perfect...