Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge film-buffs should be especially happy to see the French New Wave pop out of the Brattle's thirteenth birthday cake. Instead of the usual 1920 masterpieces or obscure Japanese fare, we will be treated to six weeks of the best films by Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, and Papatakis...
Jean-Lue Godard's A Woman is a Woman, the first film in the aniversary series, seems highly atypical of the New Wave at first sight. The use of color and cinemascope depart from the amateurish, low-budget style of Breathless, and the large number of interior shots violates the New Wave maxim of "on-the-street" shooting. But these departures only point out the most important tendency in the New Wave movement: the willingness to experiment with any style, any technique, or any location. Godard uses his camera with the same abandon that characterized Breathless, and in his hands...
...Georgians and the Ukrainians and the Rumanians and the Bulgarians- all with a yelp and a soaring leap. In the past ten years, the U.S. has been yelped and leaped at by more than a dozen different folk-dancing troupes from Eastern Europe, and with each successive wave it becomes increasingly difficult to separate last week's folk from this week's folk. Without fail, fear or falter, they follow in one another's folksteps...
What brought things to a head were elections last October in the Western Region. Chief Akintola had labels switched on ballot boxes, prevented opposition candidates from running, even reversed local vote counts to give his party a lopsided victory despite a hostile electorate. A wave of violence immediately broke out, and the wave became a flood. Political riots and assassinations have taken more than 150 lives in the past three months. Gunmen of the opposition Action Group ranged the roads, stopping cars and trucks and demanding money for the party. Police, unable to control them, warned motorists to stay...
...island-New Zealand's South Island-and who, like sea birds feels uncomfortable nesting anywhere but on rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose granite crest the great auk passed into extinction. Russell effectively translates for nonislomanes...