Word: vigo
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Lindsay Anderson is a director who knows a good movie when he sees one, and apparently he has seen Jean Vigo's 1933 masterpiece, Zero for Conduct. Anderson's If ... contains ideas, characters and even a climactic scene reminiscent of Zero. The difference lies in accomplishment. James Agee rightly called Zero "one of the few great movie poems." Anderson's If . . . is occasionally powerful and moving, but even at its best it is never more than forceful and faintly mannered prose...
...badly needs and sadly lacks the sort of heretical lyricism that Vigo brought to Zero. Vigo said more about the nature of freedom and repression, about schoolboys and their world of desperate fantasy in a single scene than Anderson does in an entire film. If, as the Rolling Stones sing, "the time is right for palace revolution," then If . . . may be a timely film. Still, Zero for Conduct will remain the timeless...
...Mayor Unmoved. While the mayor and police chief championed the status quo, Vigo County Sheriff Clyde Lovellette acted like an old-fashioned lawman. Sending ahead deputies to "collect evidence," the new seven-foot sheriff raided three Tenderloin houses and arrested nine women. All pleaded guilty and were each sentenced to 15 days in jail. Spurred by the raid and a petition signed by 400 citizens, the city council unanimously urged police to "sincerely attempt" to eliminate vice...
Eisenstein's "Ten Days that Shook the World," and Jean Vigo's "Zero for Conduct...
Demy is interested primarily in what he calls "poetic neorealism,"--a genre whose paradoxical name he has coined, but which could include some of the great directors such as Vigo, Dovjenko, Carne, as well as many of the contemporary Italian inheritors of the postwar tradition of neorealism, such as Antonioni, early Fellini, Pasolini...