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Despite its dramatic failings, La Dolce Vita contains some of the most imaginative and skillful cinematography I have ever seen. The sleazy crowd of photographers that hovers around Marcello's car moves like a swarm of unspeakable vermin.

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: La Dolce Vita | 5/16/1961 | See Source »

The Bridge (Allied Artists), adapted from the novel by Manfred Gregor, is a skillful and ferocious West German film (with English subtitles) that examines one of the more horrible absurdities of World War II: the war's end draft of German schoolboys, none of them trained, many of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Human Sandbags | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

The New English Bible. An often skillful, sometimes stilted attempt to make the New Testament Scripture more intelligible to moderns.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Died. Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 78, a Mississippi beauty who married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 5, 1961 | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Ikiru describes a death occuring over the space of five months. But literally translated, the title means "to live." Watanabe's last day would be the final entry in a plot summary, but skillful use of flashback makes possible a switch between the presentations of his death and the struggle...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Ikiru | 4/17/1961 | See Source »

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