Word: steppenwolf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STEPPENWOLF...
Boston Film Festival. A very respectable series, including too many films to list here. The highlight is perhaps Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien, a new film about French collaboration during World War II. But also Attica, a Laughton film, a DeBroca film, Max von Sydow as Steppenwolf, a Boorman film, Monty Python, and the new Bunuel. Call the Orson Welles for the schedule...
...Steppenwolf, the Hesse novel that all my friends and I loved but didn't understand in high school, has been made into a movie just so I won't understand it in college. The last Hesse story that got a film treatment, Siddhartha, turned out horrendously, but the new film has the potential to be at least interesting. The cast for this one is quite good: Max von Sydow and Dominique Sandra star. The Orson Welles is having a one-time-only "sneak" preview tonight, so if you're interested be forewarned...
Today: The Long Goodbye, 4 and Steppenwolf...
...HESSE WAS NOT incapable of good writing. "A Man by The Name of Ziegler," a surrealistic story about a man who can suddenly hear animals speak, is enjoyable probably because Hesse's style is best suited to that genre. "Harry the Steppenwolf" and "An Evening with Dr. Faust," which are along the same lines, also work well...