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French-Canadian director Claude Jutra has been making films for some time, but My Uncle Antoine is his first film to receive major notice in the United States. Despite its force, however, and despite its importance as a film, this Janus Films release has not been much shown outside New York City, where it first played about a year ago. There isn't much of a market for Canadian films here, certainly not for subtitled films from Quebec. The regular audience for foreign language films from Europe is not greatly attracted, since Canada has no deep-seated film tradition...
...cooperate with the professional theaters because of the theaters' potential power to withhold films from the societies. Cyrus I. Harvey '47, owner of the Harvard Square, Brattle Square, and Central Cinemas is in a good position to wield this power. Harvey is one of the founding partners of Janus films, a major distributor of foreign films to both professional and non-professional groups. Janus often checks with Harvey's manager, Robert St. George, to okay a film before sending it to a Harvard society...
...Fear. French, yet a surprising commercial success in the U.S. (both with sub-titles and in a dubbed version). Henri-Georges Clouzot wrote and directed this tragedy of Latin truckers working in a South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne...
...stumbling advance, it is easier to articulate the shortcomings of his theory. Most of these weaknesses appear more explicitly in The Primal Revolution, a new and less formally structured book written to answer questions Janov believes The Primal Scream leaves unanswered. The crucial weakness lies in a distinction Janus fails to make--a distinction between awareness and expression--and from his failure to fully understand the implications of the conclusion that consciousness of real needs depends upon the ability to express them...
Wild Strawberries. Bergman's land-mark film, and Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir's one undisputed masterpiece, have been placed together on a double-bill during the Harvard Square Theater's Janus Film Festival. I can't think of a better evening of film. Bergman's work marked that director's broadest progression away from both adolescent psychological drama and baroque imagery, towards a mature acceptance of emotional struggle and transformation, and a pure film style based on character. Dealing with an aging doctor's recognition of his sins during a trip to Stockholm taken with his daughter...