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Died. Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, 80, durable and witty cinema scenarist and playwright; of heart failure; in Manhattan. Behrman's first play, The Second Man (1927), an overnight hit, was an urbane comedy like many of his later works (Rain from Heaven, Wine of Choice). No Time for Comedy (1939), the story of a writer who wants to be serious yet has a gift mainly for entertainment, reflected Behrman's own situation; but in several plays, including his adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman...
IFVENICE IS sinking into the sea, or dissolving into polluted air, or becoming uninhabitable because of its odors, it would have been hard to have guessed so in the brisk days of early September, as the city hosted the annual Giornate del Cinema Italiano-- "the Birthday of Italian Cinema...
AMONG THE DIRECTORS whose films were shown, there was a surprising absence of the directors that have shaped American notions of the native Italian cinema, and an abundance of the cheaper blood-and-guts thrillers that are the trademark of Italy's most successful commercial cinema. De Sica--whose current illness elicited a message of good cheer from the gathering--was represented by a single film, Pasolini's Orestiad was presented, and Bertolucci's pseudopolitical Before the Revolution was dusted off, but Fellini received no recognition, and Visconti figured only as the object of indignation at news that the director...
King of Hearts. The only reason for writing this clip is to tell you -- if you are still debating whether you want to find out what all the fuss in Central Square has been about every Saturday night for who knows how long -- not to bother. Central Cinema...
...five-month-old dispute between employees and management at Orson Welles led to extensive picketing and renewed negotiations during the week of July 30. The cinema workers wanted their wages increased from $2.00 to $2.50 an hour, a sum that one worker called only "a decent and livable wage...