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...other panelists each spoke for a couple of minutes after the film, and then Cavell opened the floor up for questions. The other participants were Robert Gardner '48, directer of the Carpenter Center; Alfred F. Guzzetti, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department; Vlada K. Petric, curator of the Harvard Film Archive; screenwriter and film critic William D. Rothman; and Charles Warren '69, lecturer on history and literature...
...Vlada Petric is a Visiting Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University...
During director Anrei Serban's recent lecture at the Loeb Drama Center--a lecture composed of a series of questions and answers--Vlada Petric directs a questions to Loeb Producing Director George Hamlin: "Since you belong to this institution, do you plan to hire Mr. Serban to change a little bit of the theater we see here, which I find very conventional, boring and stale?" People gasp, some applaud, some laugh. During a reception afterwards, Petric tells me, "Two elderly ladies just came up to me and told me that I ought to be ashamed of myself" He says...
...understand Vlada Petric's vision of cinema, it is useful to cite and examine specific films. When I venture to say that Lina Wertmueller's Seven Beauties is among my favorite films, he characterizes her as "an interesting but unimportant filmmaker, a kind of Jacqueline Susanne of the cinema" who "entertains bourgeoise intellectuals on a slightly higher level than junk. In Seven Beauties the cinematic structure and forms that she chose don't correspond to the narrative and ideological substance. That content is superficially conceived she treated the dramatic concept without artistic depth." He then points out that we have...
...subject of an interview, Vlada Petric is as demanding and enthusiastic as he is when teaching. "I have an ending for your article," he says, suddenly, and waves his hands while composing his sentences. "I know the future of the film program at Harvard will depend on money," he begins. "Film Studies is an expensive medium which when approached in a scholarly way does not bring back profit. But there are dreams, dash-dash, even in academia, dot dot dot, that money cannot buy." His last sentence, he explains, is a pun of a '40s avant-garde film called Dreams...