Word: rossellini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenery ever since his one-man student production at the University of Florence led Luchino Visconti to sign him for a bit part in Crime and Punishment. Zeffirelli then talked his way into assistant directorships with the maestros of postwar Italian cinema: Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini...
Wider Spectrum. Michael Dann, CBS's senior V.P. for programming, concedes that "the true excitement must come from specials." This year NBC will offer Roberto Rossellini's impressions of Sicily, an original drama starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman...
...Kubrick's superb film has a problem, it may simply be that great philosophical-metaphysical films about human progress and man's relationship to the cosmos have one strike against them when they attempt to be literally just that. Rossellini's radiant religious films or Bresson's meditative ascetiscism ultimately say far more, I think, than Kubrick's far-more-ambitious attempt at synthesizing genre and meaning...
...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...
This year that policy seems wiser than ever. In the past, Lincoln Center featured new films by the creative experimenters of the art-house circuit-Bufiuel, Resnais, Kurosawa, Losey. The 1967 scene offers an old and a new Godard (Les Carabiniers, Made in U.S.A.) and a sluggish Rossellini (The Rise of Louis XIV), but otherwise gives itself over to cinematic unknowns. Unfortunately, few entries rise above mediocrity...