Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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WHETHER you like or dislike Andrew Sarris's film criticism will probably depend on your point-of-view. If you spend your life at the movies, if your idea of complete intellectual and emotional fulfillment is the acquisition of an ability to empathize totally with a strong cinematic personality-then Sarris is definitely the man to turn to as a guide to cinematic transubstantiation. His altar even has its own iconography: casts of Angle Dickinson's body and Belmondo's mug, John Wayne's slouch and Hitchcock...
...Pollard, an English journalist who was working on the film, asked Pattakos why we were prohibited from taking film, explaining that the film was about what a great job the government is doing in Greece. Pattakos turned to the police chief of Ghrevena, who had been giving us a hard time about the film, and scolded him for interfering with our work. Then he signed a piece of paper stating that we could film "at liberty...
After the interview, Pattakos treated us to an enormous platter of roast lamb. At dawn the next day he flew off. We were confident that Pattakos' word on our filming would be taken as law, but we were wrong. The local military authorities acted on the orders which they had received from Athens. We had already given them 200 feet of film and twelve rolls of color slides, assuring them that was all we had taken. We hid the rest of the film in the woods. Whenever they asked for more film, we simply gave them a roll...
...more and more pressure was mounting against us during the weeks after Pattakos' visit, we decided that we had to finish filming as soon as possible and leave. The villagers were always kind to us and the village council even gave us all the land surrounding our tent to build a house on when we would come back the next summer. The news of this spread until it was reported on the radio in Salonika that some foreigners were planning to build a college overlooking Samarina which would enroll a thousand English students. But the local village policemen were under...
...guerrillas. Many villagers who were affected by these harsh measures talk admiringly of the colonels, who are virulently anti-Communist. But even in these bastions of conservatism, the junta's support is rapidly declining. The Samarinans reacted with disgust when they heard that the military was interfering with our film, which was simply attempting to describe...