Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Jacques Yves Cousteau, the renowned underwater explorer, has covered 155,000 miles of sea on film-making and oceanographic expeditions during the past 3½-years. Last week in Monte Carlo, he summed up what he had seen in glum, blunt terms: "The oceans are in danger of dying. The pollution is general...
...will be brought against WPIX in the continuing hearing in Manhattan's Federal Building. Several days before the Putzel caper, the FCC says, WPIX ran a scene identified as Prague with the subtitle "Via Satellite" when in fact it was not a satellite transmission but a dusty old film. Another night, a voice report out of Vienna was labeled as Prague. Similarly, the channel stands accused of passing off canned footage of a disturbance in a Boston high school as a later, ghetto riot...
...York Film Festival is a peculiar combination of international no-talents and geniuses, a show, in T.S. Eliot's phrase, of "garlic and sapphires in the mud." Last week, at its opening, the garlic was very much in evidence. This week some sapphires glint...
...reached a modus vivendi with Franco Spain, and returned to create in Tristana a coda of inexhaustible power and sophistication. Like the world reflected in a convex mirror, every element is in this masterwork -but somehow transfigured and amplified. People are themselves and something other. Even the film's title has a dual meaning: Tristana suggests "sadness," and is the name of its heroine, impeccably played by Catherine Deneuve...
...classic elements of youth and age, jealousy and revenge may seem better suited to opera than to modern film. But Buñuel recognizes no visual or emotional barriers. His scenario seems, rhythmically, to have been composed on the guitar. It traverses wit and melancholy, surrealism and truth without missing a quarter note...