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...book-burning brigades set up after World War III by a dictatorship determined to put out the fire of freedom in the human heart. Assembled first in that overproductive fiend factory, the fantascientific brain of Author Ray Bradbury, the brigade has now been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut in a weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind...
...Truffaut's hero (Oskar Werner) is a member of the brigade, a pyromanic punk who sincerely believes that "books are just rubbish" and should be burned. After a hard day at the cultural crematorium, he cools off with tranquilizers, sits staring at the wall screen with his trank-tanked wife (Julie Christie), and sinks slowly into nothinkness. One day, riding home on the monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn...
...earnest, overlong semi-documentary about the bitter struggle for Algerian independence, impressed the judges so much that they awarded it the festival's Gold Lion, even as it outraged the touchy French. Fahrenheit 451 earned quieter but more general appreciation. Directed by France's gifted Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and blessed by the presence in the leads of Julie Christie and Oskar Werner, Fahrenheit is a Ray Bradbury story that takes a disturbing look at a future world in which the printed word is forbidden and every last book is burned. (The temperature of the title...
...more than we've got at Harvard."), examines the go-go phenomenon, pedals fourteen laps around Central Park, and has 'the works' at Mr. Kenneth's in those New Frontier days when he did Jackie, Rose, Pat, and Eunice. She is at her best, perhaps, when dealing with Personalities. Truffaut, Albee, Stevenson, Noel Coward, and Simon McQueen (the weather girl) all make their appearances. "Campaigning I" and "Campaigning II," in which she deals with Robert Kennedy and Kenneth Keating during their Senatorial fight, are classic. Who could ever forget that breakfast in Scarsdale when "a couple of hundred women...
This spring, film makers from all over the world have been attracted to London by its swinging film industry, whose latest export to the U.S. is Morgan!, a hilarious piece of insanity. Charlie Chaplin is making The Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Francois Truffaut is just finishing Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Roman Polanski is making a horror satire called The Vampire Killers. Robert Aldrich is starting up a war film called The Dirty Dozen, and Sidney Lumet is working with Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Simone Signoret in The Deadly Affair...