Word: rocha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army. Gueiler was happy to oblige; she selected General Rene Villaroel, a moderate officer, for Garcia Meza's post. But Garcia Meza, backed by the army's conservative senior officers, would not vacate his command. He refused to step down unless Gueiler replaced him with General Ruben Rocha Patino, a fellow right-winger with close ties to ex-Dictator Hugo Banzer Suarez...
Finally Gueiler, who had been a confidante of Chile's late Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, caved in to Garcia Meza's demand, appointing Rocha Patino to the army post last week. He obligingly proclaimed that the protesting officers were now ready "to bear with dignity and stoicism whatever sacrifices are demanded by the democratic cause." But Rocha Patifto's statement, cynics noted, was at best a rather lukewarm endorsement of Gueiler's fledgling regime...
Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour, and a Stan Brakhage short, The Process, Thursday, April 18, 8 p.m., Glauber Rocha's Der Leone Have Sept Cabezas, with Jean-Pierre Leaud, Sunday, April...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH Carrots and Peas by Hollis Frampton, Lemon by Hollis Frampton, Castro Street by Bruce Baillie, Up and Atom by Doug Wendt, Stromboli, by Roberto Rosselini, Oct. 25, at 7:30, $1. A Luta Continua by Robert van Lierop, Barravente by Glauber Rocha...
...bourgeois forms" part of the "data" imparted to an audience. (Every well-meaning cloud-nine intellectual should be required to serve in a factory of a chain gang.) Thus, say Sontag and Poirier, the most important films of the past decade have been the political works of Godard and Rocha, even though these guys are in the baby league as far as politicians go. For my money, the best political film ever made is called Salvatore Giuliano, and was made by an Italian Marxist. Francesco Rosi, in 1962. He was one of the first of his countrymen to reveal...