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...heart of the new movement is a hardy little band of inspired pioneers: Japan's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon); Sweden's Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries); France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour) and Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows); Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) and Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers); England's Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger); Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Kanal) and Roman Polanski (Two Men and a Wardrobe); Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Summerskin); India's Satyajit Ray (Father Panchali...
...that foreign films have seriously challenged the commercial hegemony of American movies, which still capture two out of every three dollars the world spends on cinema. But in the last ten years they have doubled their take in the international market (La Dolce Vita alone grossed $10 million), and in the U.S., where in 1953 they grossed $5,200,000, they have in recent years grossed as much...
...wide and varied repertory that should be greeted as a valuable primer by Atkins-style pickers, as his many imitators call themselves. No one could play The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise better than Atkins does here, but he does seem a bit awkward with La Dolce Vita and other tunes of that...
...opus-number title of Federico Fellini's new film-is self-psychoanalysis in search of an answer. Fellini, who made La Dolce Vita, has a singular personal problem: why is he so preoccupied with making movies that speak of the emptiness of life? He gets his answer, but unless Fellini's problem has been preying on the mind of the viewer, he may not care to take on the director's doubts and confusions...
...Gaulle occasionally shows a penchant for the torrid. The pro-Gaullist weekly Le Nouveau Candide raised Parisian eyebrows some time ago by reporting that De Gaulle had read Les Pianos Mecaniques by Henri-Francois Rey. A French bestseller highly praised by the critics, Pianos is a sort of Dolce Vita set on Spain's Costa Brava whose main characters-a schizophrenic journalist, a neglected teen-age boy and girl, a half-wit charwoman-move through their pointless lives battling boredom with promiscuity. Sample passage: "She led him to the bed, still keeping their lips locked. Vincent lay down. Jenny...