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...mayor, the local Congressman and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who donated $250 to the trip, all stayed away from the welcome-home ceremonies. Nonetheless, more than 5,000 Wasecans were on hand as Kunst, clutching his blue rucksack, strode up to his starting point, the Waseca Cinema on State Street. There he swigged champagne, toasted the U.S. as "the best damn country I've ever been in," and ended his improbable odyssey...
Campus film societies were organized by Harvard students for two reasons: (1) to serve as a neutral vehicle to bring films rarely shown in commercial theaters to the university community for the benefit of students of the cinema and anyone interested in the medium and (2) to provide a forum for the primarily aesthetic questions about films and film-making raised by the pictures shown. Film societies select movies for their artistic merit and/or their importance in the history of the craft...
...from repression, coercion and any restrictions excepting those imposed by the Harvard Film Studies Council which stipulates that a film society may not be a profit-making enterprise nor show films scheduled by Cambridge theaters. Such license has enabled the societies to explore unusual and controversial aspects of the cinema and has led to the development of innovative programs and program formats among many thriving organizations. We feel that actions such as those of the OSTWS during the past weekend threaten the quality of future film society programs--and perhaps even their very existence--and undermine the concept...
...demonstrators displayed a more serious insensitivity by assuming that the audience was not sophisticated enough to understand the movie in its proper context. A few cinema buffs conceivably could have been engrossed in the technical innovations, but, without doubt, leaflets, picketing, or a publicized boycott would have jarred even the most myopic D.W. Griffith fans, and given the screening a political meaning...
Some years ago, Fellini remarked that "in the hands of traditional film makers, the cinema has become a form of art which allows no space for meditation." Like other great directors, Fellini, now 54, has shown other, younger film makers the possibility of finding such a space. It has been argued that Fellini has spent too much time in this space, resifting the same phantoms of personal history and illusion. This has been said as well, and predictably, about Amarcord. What is so different, and so significant, is a whole new strengthening of tone and depth of feeling, the exhilaration...