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...introduced by Renoir himself, standing next to a miniature theater whose curtain rises and falls in formal punctuation. The Last Christmas Eve, the opening episode, is dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen. The curtain goes up on a wistful tale of two beggars, an old man and his aging inamorata who pass Christmas Eve down by the Seine. It is a fragile story, easy enough to grind into sentimentality, but Renoir makes it true by conveying a poignant dignity that leaves no room for pathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fantasy and Elegy | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...Claire's Knee, Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a 35-year-old diplomat, is about to marry his longtime inamorata. Before the wedding he makes a nostalgic trip to provincial Annecy, where he spent his boyhood holidays. There he meets an old friend, Novelist Aurora (Aurora Cornu) and two jeunes filles en fleur, Laura (Beatrice Romand) and Claire (Laurence de Monaghan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hommage a Proust | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...band from the era of Sidney Bechet, a pair of American expatriate hound dawgs with IQs slightly lower than Corner Pyle's-and, most important, O'Malley, the alley cat. O'Malley's voice, as supplied by Phil Harris, could be poured on waffles. His inamorata, Duchess, is furnished with a Hungarian purr that could only have issued from the vocal cords of Eva Gabor. They and the rest of the players sing a number of numbers-all of them delightful, and one of them (Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat) absolutely true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Bubble | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...mistress (Janis Young) in Manhattan. Wilson has trouble peddling his ad illustrations-possibly because they look as if they were traced from a 1945 copy of the Saturday Evening Post. His wife has a combination of eros and vulnerability rarely seen outside Scandinavian movies, but Wilson prefers his hostile inamorata-possibly because she has almost no dialogue. To combat the strains of shuttling, the uneasy rider takes on huge loads of alcohol and begins alienating wife, children, colleagues and himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Rider | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...French spy, Andre Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), is employed by American intelligence to venture into Cuba. He emerges with evidence of Russian rockets, but in the process abets the deaths of cooperative peasants, patriots and his old inamorata (Karin Dor). Kiss-of-death Devereaux returns to Paris with another revelation: Topaz is the code name for quislings in the De Gaulle Cabinet. They too are rooted out, to perish ignominiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zombie | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

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