Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, Italian Film Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, 43, was asked by reporters whether Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, 34, the woman he plans to marry, is expecting a baby. Replied Rossellini: "How can I answer such a question when it would involve many other people?" Meanwhile Miss Bergman filed suit by proxy in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, for a quickie divorce. In Hollywood, her husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, made leisurely plans to file his own suit in the California courts...
...filmed in a forlorn, postwar Vienna, The Third Man is crammed with cinematic plums that would do the early Hitchcock proud-ingenious twists and turns of plot, subtle detail, full-bodied bit characters, atmospheric backgrounds that become an intrinsic part of the story, a deft commingling of the sinister with the ludicrous, the casual with the bizarre. But the central characters are not mere pawns in a melodrama; they are motivated people who speak grown-up dialogue and feel contagious emotions. The film's most original touch: a unique musical sound track using only a hauntingly twanging zither* which...
...Mark (Champion) Robson. Robert Keith, a Broadway veteran playing his first screen role, acts the heroine's sympathetic father with sure skill. But nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track. Also, the film's makers seem to have shot two different endings and then decided to give the heartstrings an extra wrench by using them both...
Nine movie revivals will be presented on the New Lecture Hall screen this term by the Liberal Union Film Series, including two co-sponsored with the American Veterans Committee...
Captured in the full colors of Ansco film, the narcotic spell of Paris nicely complements Tone's interpretation of Radek's manic-depressive states. The photography, under actor-director Meredith's sensitive eye, is responsive to the moods of both the man and the city...