On the Absence of the Grail
[Originally published in Movietone News 47, January 1976] The interest of the reader (and one reads the Grail stories with a real interest) does not come, one can see, from the question which normally...
View ArticleOut of the Past: ‘Pather Panchali’
[Originally published in Movietone News 49, April 1976] The camera looks up at a rooftop and balcony where we see an Indian woman, clearly upper-class from her dress, intently examining a piece of...
View ArticleIn Black and White: The World of Entertainment
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT. By Hugh Fordin. Doubleday. 566 pages. $15.00. By packaging and presentation, Hugh Fordin’s book is a sheep in...
View ArticleIt can’t happen there: film (non)publications in the land of the frogs
[Originally published in Movietone News 34, August 1974] Please forgive me if I begin with a rather farcical personal story, which will hopefully illustrate a point. A little over a year ago a friend...
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