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...reconstructions, she insists, and as her voice drones on in reiteration, the viewer is exposed to what well may be the ghastliest five minutes ever recorded on commercial film. The scene shifts rapidly from a shot of the Hiroshima museum, to some of the relics of the attack, to graphic sections of film taken in Hiroshima immediately after the bombing. Terrified men and women swim, in flame covered rivers; thousands of people, living and dead, huddle in makeshift hospital-shelters. Director Alain Resnais spares the viewer nothing--the camera methodically records all of the most gruesome effects of immediate radiation...
Although sex in Hollywood films has lately become more graphic, U.S. audiences may never overtake European tolerance in these matters. Since about half of the average potential gross of a movie now comes from foreign markets, Hollywood has learned to display two faces of Eve, and a little more besides. As a frequent but not general practice, certain scenes in U.S. films are shot twice-vividly for export and vapidly for American distribution. (Sometimes they are merely cut.) Producers and directors prefer to deny the habit. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association, says that "no one has ever...
...main box-office attraction in West Germany last week was a film that froze its packed audiences to stiff attention and sent them from the theater in silence with eyes averted. Compiled by a German-born Swedish intellectual named Erwin Leiser, it is a documentary that traces with graphic intensity the rise and collapse of the Third Reich. Its title: Mein Kampf...
Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster brings Sinclair Lewis' 1927 hero to exuberant lite in Hollywood's gaudy, graphic look at tent-show religion...
Elmer Gantry. Director Richard Brooks's wonderfully gaudy, artfully graphic adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a carny-style revivalist specializing in the Seventh Commandment...