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CRITICS HAVE accurately called Toni a neo-realist film eleven years ahead of its time. In a decade of pictures made in studios, it as shot entirely on location in the Midi, using local inhabitants as well as professional actors. I feels completely true to the environment and lives of immigrant French peasants. As Richard Roud puts it, "Renoir's ambition was that the public should imagine that an invisible camera had filmed various phases of a Crime passionel without the human beings involved in the action having noticed...
Still, the festival has always performed a valuable service in offering certain films that were either too flawed or too offbeat for commercial distribution. The program directors' taste in revivals remains impeccable. Jean Renoir's Toni, made in 1934, is a gentle, loving tribute to the peasants of pre-Civil War Spain. The uncut version of Max Ophuls' Lola Montes (1955), never commercially released in the U.S., is one of the most sumptuous romances ever filmed. Among the other festival highlights...
...Whole Bit. But many couples insist that they do belong in the same world. Says San Francisco Negro Drama Student Toni Johns, 20: "I feel proud that I can date white boys, that my companion can do it, that we have no hang-ups, that we have enough sense and our heads are in the right place." And when it is a case of true love, the reaction can be fiery. Says Seattle Negro Musician Ernie Hatfield, 18, of his white fiancee: "We're not trying to prove anything. We love each other, that...
...snow nor Avery Brundage could stay France's Jean-Claude Killy, 24, from the swift completion of his appointed round. Favored to win all three Olympic Alpine races-downhill, giant slalom, special slalom-Killy was under tremendous pressure. "He's too tense," insisted Austria's Toni Sailer, himself a triple gold-medal winner in 1956. "He can't win." But on the day of the downhill, the pressure seemed to ease. Killy stood patiently at the starting gate, the picture of confidence as he awaited his turn and checked the speeds of competitors...
...TONI KANN Fairview Park, Ohio...