Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sternberg expresses these complex attitudes with practically no dialogue. He still had the silent film director's knack for telling a story with pictures. When Rath glances from Lola Lola to a nude caryatid, or gets entangled in a fishnet which trying to reach her dressing room, pages of conversation could never recreate the moment as effectively...
...prison?" Dismayed to learn that Kien-hoa's 1,500 crack troops waited days for orders before going to the help of besieged villages. Thao led them into action himself in his Jeep. Where the roads ended, Thao and his men paddled off by canoe in silent search of the enemy. Thao set up a Communist-style intelligence network, paying peasants liberally for information on guerrilla moves...
...going to tear to bits all those who show their heads," he cried. At a workers' meeting he lapsed into incoherency. But Brother Raul, the Defense Minister, and Castro's Communist Adviser Che Guevara seemed to be keeping their heads. They sent convoys of tanks and grimly silent militia rumbling out of Havana to guard the lonely beaches along the island's 2,200-mile perimeter. Raul Castro enlisted sugarcane cutters as fighters, invited them to set up their own jungle justice over people they were suspicious of: "The workers themselves will try saboteurs and execute them...
...begins a fresh, charming, witty piece of intellectual slapstick, a two-reel silent spoof of modern painting that is just as funny as Day of the Painter (TIME, Sept. 12) but much more subtle in comment and adroit in technique. The work of a 27-year-old New Yorker named William Kronick, Bowl was filmed at 16 frames a second and is shown at 24, with an arresting result: the picture moves across the screen, as the old silent comedies did, with a tic-quick impetuous energy and innocence that delightfully heighten...
...other extreme of the house is Walter Kerr's study, where 16 theater seats are screwed permanently into the floor; there he shows old slapstick silent films to guests ("Walter thinks nobody should have to be adorable right after dinner," says Jean). The adjacent living room?like every other room in the house, half the niches and all the floors?is filled with books, everything from Boccaccio to Beerbohm, plus a slim volume called Per Piacere, Non Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior...