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Bunuel is an artist, and he knows he's a sinner; Rafelson makes movies, and has a saint's deadly obsession with truth. "What you can, do," goes another Yiddish proverb; "what you have, hold; what you know, keep to yourself."

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The New York Film Festival Twelve Nights in a Dark Room: You Can't Always Get What You Want | 9/29/1970 | See Source »

If he ever writes his memoirs, George Plimpton will almost certainly have another bestseller: his circle of acquaintances is wide, and his stories about them are inexhaustible. One chapter, for instance, might be titled "The Night Ernest Hemingway and Norman Mailer Almost Met." Knowing of Mailer's obsession with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: George Plimpton: The Professional Amateur | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

In Le Boucher, French Director Claude Chabrol once again explores his obsession: murder and the darkness of soul required to commit it. While the film is neither as tightly wound as La Femme Infidele nor as intricately plotted as This Man Must Die, Boucher creates a mutely eerie quality that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festivals | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

The destructive Mandy is balanced by the Mandy who has an obsession for order and symmetry. A toy out of place, a hair clip without a precisely secured mate on the other side of her head could send her into rages. In quiet moments she rocks herself with a natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through the Sound Barrier | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

I had been living in Rome with my sweet Marcello when my father insisted I come to Geneva for his fifth marriage (dear Father, he will ever be the child). He tempted me with tales of a dazzling young American named Gregory. So off I went to Geneva, In Search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Autistic Nonsense | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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