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...ranging from The Third Man and Touch of Evil to weaker pictures like Preminger's Laura, Harper, Gumshoe and The Last of Shella. This week, though, looks terrific. Made by Carol Read in 1949, The Third Man is one of the most exciting movies ever made. Tonight is von Sternberg's 1936 version of Crime and Punishment with none other than Peter Lorre as Raskoinlloov, Tomorrow begins Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Orson Welles' The Stranger, with Edward G. Robinson as a Nazi war criminal hiding out in America...
...Sternberg's The Blue Angel, with Dietrich and Emil Jannings (1930, sound). Friday and Saturday...
Translated by HILARY STERNBERG 59 pages. Harper & Row. $3.50. by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN...
...Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn't put it that high...
...close to voluble. She comments about Women's Lib ("It's ridiculous. I think a woman wants to be dominated by a man. Men are much cleverer than women. A dominating woman cannot be happy"). About the film directors she has most enjoyed working with (Josef von Sternberg, Billy Wilder and Orson Welles). About The Blue Angel, the film that sent her to America ("I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed on me here." She points to her groin. "I was so young and dumb...