Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Spring 1963
Last Night at Marienbad
Last night, or was it last year, at the theatre where I saw Last Year at Marienbad, they were—truly—selling a “pocket edition of 192 ‘Marienbad’ games” for $1.00 in the […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Spring 1962
Two Movies and Their Critics
There is not really much similarity between La Dolce Vita and L’Avventura. Both were made at about the same time, and in the same country; if anything, they only show […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Autumn 1961
The Closed Mind of Sergei Eisenstein
The great success of the 1925 Moscow film season was not Potemkin, but some undistinguished Hollywood colossus; some thirty-five years later, Eisenstein had his season in New York. His huge […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Spring 1961
The Ballad and the Source
In a sense, it hardly matters what one says about The Virgin Spring, or about Bergman. No matter; the latest Bergman is upon us, and, predictably, the college kids will […]