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Truffaut's latest release (not yet seen in the U.S.)- The Siren of Mississippi -retains the loving detachment of his other films. It also signals a kind of return to Jules and Jim. exploring the constantly changing relationship between two people (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve). The changes in their relationship are frequent, radical, and usually unpredictable...
...shot as the man begins running to cells, banging on their doors, and yelling "they've tortured General della Rovere." As they begin a noisy riot. Rossellini cuts to an agitated close-up pan over the walls. Similarly, a scene in which the prison is airraided begins with a siren and a quick zoom up into windows at the end of the prison hall, and continues in zooming in and out of the hall. Though Rossellini in both cases uses devices which intensify emotion, he becomes in these shots more concrete, more closely engaged with the physical world. In Murnau...
...most scenic and storied waterways. It was a commercial route before Christ, and Julius Caesar first spanned it with a bridge in 55 B.C. Along its picturesque banks, flanked by medieval castles, are Drachenfels, the cliff where Siegfried slew his dragon, and the Lorelei rock, where a beautiful siren lured rivermen to their death on the treacherous shoals...
...takes a special kind of travel writer to steer his readers to steerburgers in Italy. And Temple Fielding is special. He is a superpatriotic expatriate (witness the U.S. flag that flies from the fender of his siren-equipped Cadillac convertible) and a Swinburned sentimentalist. Although he has lived abroad for 18 years, most of them on the island of Majorca, he does not speak a foreign language. His son Dodge, a senior at New York's Hamilton College, recalls an awkward scene one day when Fielding kept telling a Spanish cab driver that he wanted to pick up some coj?...
...Spindly Siren. Today, of course, Diahann is the star of her own highly successful TV series, Julia. Black faces abound in ads and TV commercials; TV advertisers seem to have made it a rule of thumb that if three models in an ad are white, the fourth must be black. The breakthrough in fashion modeling has been more remarkable and, at the same time, less dutiful. Three years ago, a spindly siren from Detroit named Donyale Luna stalked onto the fashion scene and became an overnight success: In one whirlwind year she posed for Harper's Bazaar, Paris Match...