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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...especially illuminating. His extremely strong, even deterministic way of shooting people's actions had always outweighed the romantic and sentimental conception of personality beneath his plots. The addition of an obsession with murder to a desperate love in Moonrise (1948) let his character material live up to his visual treatment of personality, and vielded a work of astonishing solidity, power, and integration. The same happened in other directors' works because the neurotic conception of character gave motivation a clarity it had lacked. The motives of a character could at last be described in terms of setting, objects, camera motions. Character...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Hitchcock's Career | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

TRUFFAUT has no urge to make any political or social commentary about the individual vs, society in urban life. His camera is rather a detached but passionate observer of society. The lightness of his treatment provides an underlying optimism in his attitude towards society...

Author: By Heodore Sedgwick, | Title: The Moviegoer Stolen Kisses at the Exeter Street Theater | 10/20/1969 | See Source »

...EARLY 1915 David Wark Griffith finished a small film based on contemporary news reports. The Mother and the Law dealt with the oppression of the lowly by the rich and intolerant. Feeling that its theme was bigger than his treatment, Griffith began to expand the film and then became interested in parallel situations set in former societies. Some seventeen months later he had spent two million dollars, hired thousands of extras, and built acres of sets on a film eight hours long. Distributors refused to book a feature that ran for two evenings, and Griffith...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Intolerance | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

Because of the recent spread of hepatitis, which infected 75 members of the Holy Cross football team, five per cent of would-be donors have been rejected. Also, victims of hepatitis have needed whole blood for treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REAL WORLD | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

...Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was Kramer's way of tackling intermarriage. Make sure Sidney Poitier is a nice, well-mannered young man. If anyone is to object to the marriage, the only reason must be irrational prejudice. This sort of treatment of an atypical situation does not reach the reality of the black man's experience today. But its attempt to persuade white people, if only a little bit, may be all Kramer can honestly...

Author: By Steven W. Bussard, | Title: The Moviegoer The Secret of Santa Vittoria | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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