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...Plazza Theater, 11 Washington Street, Brookline, is currently running a series of films taken from the New York Times's annual ten-best lists of the last ten years. It's a pretty eclectic choice. After all, Bosley Crwowther reigned for six of those years, selling conventional quality to the New York pubic post, and condeming out of hand many genuinely inovative films. Then there was Renata Adler's stints "A Year in the Dark," as she put it--when the Times managed an abrupt turn-around and welcomed even the most nouveau of the New Wave output...
...commercial narrative, concerns are conveyed chiefly through genre films: westerns, war films, science-fiction and detective melodramas, among many others. The critical consensus has always been that genre restricts, an attitude shared still by condescending, if blind, people like Pauline Kael or Bosley Crowther. But for all the mediocre westerns churned-out which reaffirm genre as tantamount to cliche and formula, we have Hawks's Rio Bravo or Ford's The Searchers, both of which use genre background as a means of allowing their protagonists the fullest range of individual expression. For all the cheap detective thrillers, we have Lang...
...Bosley is the Yiddishe Yankee...
...really relax discipline, instead placed the burden of responsibility for living a moral life on the self-discipline of the minister himself rather than on a code of laws. "It is time we took seriously what we mean by a 'moral witness,' " said the Rev. Harold Bosley of Manhattan's Christ Church. "You do not make a moral witness under the gun; you make it because you choose to make...
...EDUCATION OF H-Y-M-A-N KAPLAN. Poverty is romantic only from a distance; when seen through the eyes of Leo Rosten's maddeningly ingratiating immigrant in this warm and breezy musical, it is also amusing. Tom Bosley is the Yiddishe Yankee...