Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in the land of the ranch and the Colt, he shot his way up to sheriff. He's a legionnaire, a regular army non-com who earns his stripes, one after the other. He makes me think of Bernadotte [the French marshal who became King Charles XIV of Sweden], a sergeant who's been crowned. An efficient man without any style. I rather like Johnson. He doesn't even take the trouble to pretend he's thinking. Roosevelt and Kennedy were masks over the real face of America. Johnson is the very portrait of America...
Cold as a Coot. In making visibility "the primary function of the King," says De Gramont, Louis XIV reduced the royal drama to pageantry-style's exquisite confession of meaninglessness. Even the King's defecation became a public act staged on a stool decorated with mother-of-pearl landscapes...
...formerly part of the Orpheum chain, had fallen on evil days. Its gaudy decor, a melange of rococo cupids, art nouveau statuary and Buddhist-Byzantine shrines, was shrouded in brownish dust. Decorator Clark Graves painted over most of the Byzantine and the Loew camp, highlighting those motifs which Louis XIV might have allowed in Versailles...
Following New York Times procedure, the following selection includes only those film's released commercially in the Unites States during 1967. This excludes films shown only at the New York Film festival, notably Rosselini's La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV, and films made in 1967 but not yet shown here (Bunuels' Belle de Jour, Godard's La Chinoise). To make things simpler, I eliminate European films made over two years ago but released in New York during 1967. Andrew Sarris has included Bunuels' Exterminating Angel and Renoir's Boudou saved From Drowning on his list; I would also...
...film and the documentary, the written script read and performed as cinema verite. In a style most closely resembling a travelogue, Chris Marker's masterpiece Le Mystere Koumiko reveals Japan's national character by following a young girl. Rosselini describes his newest film La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV as an educational film, and indeed, its greatness emerges from the simplistic straight-forwardness of films about artists and poets shown in high school auditoriums. Most recently, Conrad Rooks' extraordinary Chappaqua is, from start to finish, a home movie...