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...turn the view of a train rushing through the industrial wastes of Tokyo into a sight as pleasing as a misty seaside mountainscape. Ozu has often been criticized for sets that are too neat, tidy and unnatural, but his love for the smallest details reveal the perceptions of a superb visual artist...
Burn. Gillo Pontecorso of Battle of Algiers fame directed this Marxist-Fanonian Parable of revolution on a Portuguese-colonized island in the Caribbean in the mid nineteenth century. The story cluntsily parallels Vietnam, the Phillipines, et al., but Marlon Brando gives a superb performance as a British mercenary agent provocateur, and the direction is sensuously beautiful. With Vlva Zapsta. Elia Kazan's exciting but absurd film of a John Steinbeck script, full of take feeling for the Mexican little guy. Still, there's a young, dynamic Brando as Emiliano, and Anthony Quinn as his brother. ORSON WELLES CINEMA ONE. Call...
...task in organizing and canvassing a nation than they did in taking on primary states in sequence. So far, only about 15 key organizers are set to go. There is a strong network of massive manpower available at lower levels, however, in about 35 states, where McGovern's superb organizations blitzed delegate caucuses and primary elections. The McGovern staff is trying to bring local candidates and professional politicians into his cause and will offer cooperative candidates the aid of this volunteer pool in their campaigns for lesser offices. The young enthusiasts will readily work with the regular Democratic organizations...
...TIME, June 5). For a while, each chapter (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes) looked cheaper and more cursory than its predecessor, but thanks to some razzle-dazzle direction by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), and most especially to the superb cinematography of Bruce Surtees, Conquest is the handsomest of the lot. It has the same storybook gusto and bizarre pageantry as the original. The setting is the America of 1991, when a mysterious virus has wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats...
...camaraderie concertos, the Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b (featuring oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn) and the Flute and Harp Concerto, K. 299, to the solo works for bassoon (K. 191), flute (K. 313), oboe (K. 314) and clarinet (K. 622). Von Karajan's soloists, drawn from the Berlin Philharmonic, are superb...