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Films Le Grand Theatre de Jean Renoir

By Mike Prokosch  • 

Retrospective at the Orson Welles Cinema over the next two weeks. INRENOIR'S mature works every formal device brings the actors


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Films A Tale Told by an Idiot RYAN'S DAUGHTER at the Charles Cinema till Doomsday

By Mike Prokosch  • 

THE ENORMITY of it. Thirteen million Super Panavision dollars-it's like trying to describe a million-dollar tinted postcard. The stories about


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Movies Another Counter-Revolutionary Film Bites the Dust

By Mike Prokosch  • 

LEE LOCKWOOD, the photojournalist who did interview books with Fidel Castro and Eldridge Cleaver, will run a benefit show at


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The Sophist Antonio das Mortes at Lowell House, 8 and 10 tonight

By Mike Prokosch  • 

-Glauber Rocha, director of Antonio das Mortes, describing the style of William Faulkner. TO GET you to see this film,


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More Bourgeois Films A Quiet Place in the Country and Leo the Last premiering at the Central Square Cinema

By Mike Prokosch  • 

A QUIET PLACE in the Country opens in promisingly non-narrative fashion, throwing movie credits and Baroque paintings and Francis Bacon's


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Movies The Sky Pirate at the Orson Welles Cinema

By Mike Prokosch  • 

THE ORSON Welles's latest publicity flyer calls Sky Pirate "a picture of the highest quality, and one which represents the


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Godard's 'Le Gai Savoir'

By Mike Prokosch  • 

IN THE MIDDLE of Le Gai Savoir (1968) the word "exploration" is offered up for definition. Jean-Pierre Leaud, like Godard's


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Opinion

Film The Wild Child

By Mike Prokosch  • 

with "The Miracle Worker" at the Harvard Square Theatre tonight ON LEARNING that Arthur Penn was already making a film


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Film Ugetsu Mongatari at Emerson 105, 7 and 9:30 tonight

By Mike Prokosch  • 

THE MEDIEVAL peasants who are the heroes of Ugetsu (1953) don't have to be complicated to become tragic figures. Like


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The Moviegoer Topaz at the Harvard Square through tomorrow

By Mike Prokosch  • 

YOU'RE sitting in the Harvard Square watching the newest Hitchcock and this dreadful Cold War rhetoric begins falling on you

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