Word: film
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Despite the ideological, artistic, and legal disputes which confused and nearly stopped the making of the film version of Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper, the movie is a brilliant success. It was Brecht himself who nearly ruined the film, for between 1928, when he wrote the play, and 1931, when G. W. Pabst commissioned him to work on the film script, Brecht's interest in Marxism had become a strong conviction, and he wanted the film turned into an anti-capitalist diatribe...
Thus began a career that took her to TV, the concert circuit, and last May to Carnegie Hall. She has half a dozen briskly selling albums on the market, will appear as the murderess Nancy in the forthcoming film version of Faulkner's Sanctuary. What distinguished her from the start was the meticulous care with which she tried to re-create the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledge hammer...
...Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy; Columbia). A rare LP recording of one of the early Prokofiev symphonies all but forgotten in Western concert halls. The composer here is less acerbic, more expansive than in the Scythian Suite or Love for Three Oranges, and the score is curiously uneven, mingling occasional film-score banalities with splendid rhythmic inventions...
...Commission usually hates to tell about accidents to nuclear reactors. Reason: the public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The film shows dozens of scientists and technicians working for nine months to patch two small holes that had been burned in the 5/16-in. zirconium shell of the reactor's fiercely radioactive core...
General della Rovere (in Italian). Roberto Rossellini's first topflight film since Paisan (1946) tells the moving story of a petty larcenist, skillfully played by Vittorio De Sica, who through wartime suffering becomes the hero he was forced to impersonate...