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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual plea for a generous sort of patriotism. It also offers the little-known story of how and why the Danes have been celebrating our Fourth of July for the past 57 years. The ad is the work of a smallish New York agency, Savitt Tobias Balk, Inc., whose concern in this case is to sell not a product but an idea...
...window and several in a cigar box on the front seat. In Detroit, a college student explained his windshield emblem: "The police like this sort of thing, and maybe, if I'm speeding and they see the flag, they won't pull me over." Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li' l Abner comic strips have been waxing increasingly patriotic, probably speaks for the less cynical majority when he says: "The flag looks better waving than burning...
From the middle, he has attempted to mediate, insofar as his position allowed, the differences threatening to tear the College apart. He has spent long hours--more than most other administrators or Faculty -- in private and public discussion with students. All but those whose views were most diametrically and bitterly opposed to Glimp's emerged from such discussions feeling that the dean understood their opinions, even if he could not share them, and that Glimp considered his own views--as well as those of the students--open to continued discussion and debate...
Instead of being rational moral alternatives as in the analytic style, characters assume greater complexity, sometimes taking on the character of psychological archetypes whose power can be for good or evil. In the hands of someone whose sensibility is as acute as Franju's, this style of film can suggest moral facets of characters and events which one hadn't suspected, and create a world whose moral structure is highly ordered. That Franju does not separate this aim from the entrancing beauty of the world he re-creates, is a tribute to the keenest sensibility among living directors...
...physical settings. Film does exactly what the circus acts do--realize an ideal conception of drama and character, and abstract view of life. LOla Montes' flashback structure gives its mise-en-scene a stylization greater than that of any other Ophuls, and makes explicit a cinema of memory whose view of life transcends all others...