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While Hollywood movies send up skyrockets of comedy and terror, the French cinema smolders like an untended hearth fire. No more the giddiness of the New Wave, whose anarchic high spirits fragmented film language and frag-bombed bourgeois complacency. Twenty years later, the bourgeoisie is again dominant, but now more thoughtful, less ready to judge. Like a concerned family doctor, today...
...these are cameos; faces in the crowd. The supporting roles-the backbone of the British repertory system, and one of the many small glories of the British cinema-give flesh, size and human dimension to the sometimes overwhelming scale of the spectacle. Among them...
...dispute in 1941 and the necessities of war work brought an end to the questing spirit of the Disney Studio in its glorious morning. But under the shrewd eye of its founder, it defined the possibilities of a unique art form-and, in the process, created some of the cinema's best moments. -By Richard Schickel
Episodes from a late-night horror flick? Not at all. More like cinema verite. Once again, the Northeast has been infested by gypsy-moth caterpillars in record numbers. Last year the bugs chomped so voraciously through more than 5 million acres of woodland that the usually lush summer landscape looked as leafless as in late fall. This year's damage, patchily extending from northern Maine to Maryland and beyond, is far worse: an estimated 11 million acres of forest, an area larger than all of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...Doris Day films). Indeed, one can find hints of the director's auto biography: a contrast between his pinchpenny past and his recent, glossier work. He appears here in the role of a "secret Resistance fighter"-against the Nazis on-screen and the moneymen of the new German cinema. But he puts up too little resistance to the lures of an international cast (including Giancarlo Giannini as a Swiss Jew, and Mel Ferrer as his father!), a multilingual film (the principals appear to be speaking English, which has been dubbed into German and subtitled back into English...