Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Child Is Born," despite several descriptive shots of life in the maternity ward, turns out to be somewhat of a blank cartridge. As one man was heard to say when leaving the theatre, "Don't they put on the damndest shows these days...
...music does have specific suggestive effects, musicians are inclined to doubt that there is any effect at all. In fact, many of our most important contemporary musicians deny the power of music to suggest even the most general feelings and motions. Stravinsky, for example, goes so far as to say that music is and always has been an essentially non-expressive art; it is all the mood...
Fortnight ago Amkino announced abruptly that henceforth U. S. cinemaddicts would not see these or any other Russian films again. With very un-Russian haste Amkino was shutting up shop, liquidating. In explanation reticent officials of Amkino had little to say. Boiled down that little was: business is bad-Soviet talkies have always been less popular in the U. S. than Soviet silent films; Soviet films are not so good as they used to be; the Moscow-Berlin pact and the invasion of Finland finished Russian pictures in the U. S. One admission Amkino officials made might or might...
They will see and hear much more. Brilliantly directed by William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Life of Emile Zola) and acted by a top-notch cast, The Magic Bullet is another refutation of critics who say Hollywood is allergic to social content in films. Like Pasteur and Zola, The Magic Bullet is loaded with social meaning. Like them, it is first and foremost absorbing entertainment...
...Grosz's early work consists of a condemnation of the money-grabbing, cafe-inhabiting industrial magnate, and the puppet-like member of the masses who allowed himself to be manocuvered into slaughtering his fellows on the battle field. Grosz is not entirely without justification, for he has much to say; his method of communication is far more subtle than a cursory glance at his work might indicate. A further discussion of Grosz and of the other artists whose works are included in the Dunster House exhibit will be found in next week's column...