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Mike Prokosch

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

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


Movies Another Counter-Revolutionary Film Bites the Dust

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


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

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


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

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


Movies The Sky Pirate at the Orson Welles Cinema

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


Godard's 'Le Gai Savoir'

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


Film The Wild Child

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


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

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


The Moviegoer Topaz at the Harvard Square through tomorrow

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