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Based on a film and book by Marcel Pagnol, a French film-maker and champion of the peasantry, this two-part tale of the decline of a powerful family combines the charm of Provence peasantry with the intrigue of a Greek tragedy...
Huston has precisely duplicated onscreen both the simple two-part structure of Joyce's story and much of its dialogue. The old Hollywood adventurer's mood and motives do not compromise Joyce's vision; they tactfully illuminate it. Indeed, Huston's handling of this material is so direct, artless and unassertive that one's first enthusiasm for it is tempered by doubt. Perhaps our desire that his last movie represent the best of his several selves is coloring our reaction. Mistrust, however, must yield to Huston's trust of his medium, his material and himself...
...execute broken chords, four-note harmonies and even separate melody and accompaniment by means of something he calls the "one-handed roll": one hand plays two notes tremolo while the other picks out a tune. In his hands, the marimba has gone from being a useful but limited foot soldier in the percussion battery to a beguiling melodic instrument fully equal to the contrapuntal subtleties of Bach's Two-Part Inventions...
...Two hundred and eleven years later, Harvard should worry less about its own ease and make undergraduate education more of a priority. As it now stands, both the University and its students fool themselves into thinking that the education here is first-rate. But it actually is so only in random cases. The quality of education must be based on something more substantial than the luck of the draw. This is the second installment of a two-part series on graduate student teaching at Harvard. Part one appeared yesterday...
...This is part one of a two-part series on graduate student teaching at Harvard. Tomorrow, some solutions...