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Louise Sweeney of The Christian Science Monitor called it "... a three-day minifestival . from innovative film makers around the world ... a brilliant assemblage of short, creative films." HAPPILY,WENOW ANNOUNCE THEEXPANSION OFTHE KINETIC ART... Once again, we are calling upon top-notch film- ??? ?????? ?????? ???? ??? makers-some masters, some bright newcomers i:?????????? ?? ? ?? -for their best. Men like Jordan Belson ... Tom ? ??????? ? ? ?? DeWitt . Kuri . .. Gerard Pires . Jan ? ????????T???? ? ? ??~. i??? Yoji I Svankmajer . .. Philippe Garrel . Bruno Boz- zetto ... Pascal Aubier .... Sound appetizing? For information on how to sponsor The Kinetic Art, write... r~ I i * UNIVERSAL EDUCATION & VISUAL ARTS m a division of " Universal City Studios, Inc: m 221 Park Avenue South New York, N.Y. 10003 m (212) 777-6600 1 VOL. XXIII, No. 1 Fall 1969 Editor's Notebook ARTICLES AFI GUIDE TO COLLEGEFILM COURSES This booklet initiates an annual Peckinpah's Return STEPHENFARBER 2 survey series, listing institutionswhich offer degrees and also Welles's Chimes at Midnight noting courses given at other institutions,usu- MCBRIDE11 JOSEPH ally in such departmentsas speech, drama,jour- nalism, communications,and occasionally art. REVIEWS The booklet documents the impressive expan- sion in courses (and total of students) over the Midnight Cowboy DAVIDDENBY 20 past several years, and is a convenient source Easy Rider HARRIETR. POLT 22 of basic informationfor prospective students; $1.00 from AFI, 1815 H Street NW, Washing- Teorema ROBERTCHAPPETTA 24 ton 20006. Only film courses visibly named as Le Socrate GEORGELELLIS 29 such are included; rumors indicate that many courses with film are also Shame ERNEST CALLENBACH 32 actually dealing pro- liferating in history, sociology, psychology, de- Goodbye, Columbus STEPHENFARBER 34 sign, English, law, foreign language, linguistics, Belle de Jour MARGOTS. KERNAN 38 and other departments.This developmentis not only a tactical one to get around college com- Viva and Louis DAvID DENBY 41 mittee barricades;it also serves to decreasefilm The Immortal Story WILLIAM JOHNSON44 people's naturaland regrettabletendency to in- tellectual When film is dealt The Thief of Paris TONYREIF 47 parochialism. with as a naturalresource and subject-matterin most nonscientificdepartments, we will know that it SHORT NOTICES 48 is being taken seriouslyby the intellectualcom- munity, in the same manner as print. Mean- while, we should encourage the percolation of BOOKS film courses everywhere, wherever and when- ever possible, under whatever course-labelsare necessary. The students get the word quickly enough, and turn up in droves. CONTRIBUTORS DAN BATESis an editorial assistant on Castle of Frankenstein. LEOBRAUDY teaches literature at Columbia. ROBERTCHAPPETTA COVER: lives in New York. R. C. DALEteaches at the University of Washing- Jason Robards and Stella Stevens in Sam ton and is now in Paris working on a study of Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue. (continued on page 58) FILM is QUARTERLY published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, California 94720. $1.25 per copy, $5.00 in the and Pan-America. per year U.S., Canada, Special two-year subscription rate: $8.00. Elsewhere: $2.50 per copy, $9.00 per year. Editor: ERNEST CALLENBACH. Assistant to the Editor: MARIGAYGRANA. New York Editors: ROBERTHUGHES and SHATNOFF. Editor: STEPHENFARBER. JUDITH Los Angeles Paris Editor: GINETTEBILLARD. Rome Editor: GIDEONBACHMANN. London Editor: PETER Edi- torial Board: ANDRIES CowIE. Advisory DEINUM, AUGUST FRUGE, GRAY,ALBERT JOHNSON, NEAL COLIN YOUNG. of the HUGH OXENHANDLER, Copyright 1969 by The Regents University of California. Views expressed in signed articles are those of the authors. Indexed in Reader's Guide to Peri. odical Literature, Art Index and Social Sciences and Humanities Index. Published quarterly. Second-class at California. Printed in U.S.A. postage paid Berkeley, 1 VOL. XXIII, No. 1 Fall 1969 Editor's Notebook ARTICLES AFI GUIDE TO COLLEGEFILM COURSES This booklet initiates an annual Peckinpah's Return STEPHENFARBER 2 survey series, listing institutionswhich offer degrees and also Welles's Chimes at Midnight noting courses given at other institutions,usu- MCBRIDE11 JOSEPH ally in such departmentsas speech, drama,jour- nalism, communications,and occasionally art. REVIEWS The booklet documents the impressive expan- sion in courses (and total of students) over the Midnight Cowboy DAVIDDENBY 20 past several years, and is a convenient source Easy Rider HARRIETR. POLT 22 of basic informationfor prospective students; $1.00 from AFI, 1815 H Street NW, Washing- Teorema ROBERTCHAPPETTA 24 ton 20006. Only film courses visibly named as Le Socrate GEORGELELLIS 29 such are included; rumors indicate that many courses with film are also Shame ERNEST CALLENBACH 32 actually dealing pro- liferating in history, sociology, psychology, de- Goodbye, Columbus STEPHENFARBER 34 sign, English, law, foreign language, linguistics, Belle de Jour MARGOTS. KERNAN 38 and other departments.This developmentis not only a tactical one to get around college com- Viva and Louis DAvID DENBY 41 mittee barricades;it also serves to decreasefilm The Immortal Story WILLIAM JOHNSON44 people's naturaland regrettabletendency to in- tellectual When film is dealt The Thief of Paris TONYREIF 47 parochialism. with as a naturalresource and subject-matterin most nonscientificdepartments, we will know that it SHORT NOTICES 48 is being taken seriouslyby the intellectualcom- munity, in the same manner as print. Mean- while, we should encourage the percolation of BOOKS film courses everywhere, wherever and when- ever possible, under whatever course-labelsare necessary. The students get the word quickly enough, and turn up in droves. CONTRIBUTORS DAN BATESis an editorial assistant on Castle of Frankenstein. LEOBRAUDY teaches literature at Columbia. ROBERTCHAPPETTA COVER: lives in New York. R. C. DALEteaches at the University of Washing- Jason Robards and Stella Stevens in Sam ton and is now in Paris working on a study of Peckinpah's Ballad of Cable Hogue. (continued on page 58) FILM is QUARTERLY published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, California 94720. $1.25 per copy, $5.00 in the and Pan-America. per year U.S., Canada, Special two-year subscription rate: $8.00. Elsewhere: $2.50 per copy, $9.00 per year. Editor: ERNEST CALLENBACH. Assistant to the Editor: MARIGAYGRANA. New York Editors: ROBERTHUGHES and SHATNOFF. Editor: STEPHENFARBER. JUDITH Los Angeles Paris Editor: GINETTEBILLARD. Rome Editor: GIDEONBACHMANN. London Editor: PETER Edi- torial Board: ANDRIES CowIE. Advisory DEINUM, AUGUST FRUGE, GRAY,ALBERT JOHNSON, NEAL COLIN YOUNG. of the HUGH OXENHANDLER, Copyright 1969 by The Regents University of California. Views expressed in signed articles are those of the authors. Indexed in Reader's Guide to Peri. odical Literature, Art Index and Social Sciences and Humanities Index. Published quarterly. Second-class at California. Printed in U.S.A. postage paid Berkeley, 58 BOOKS to have emerged from television in years. Nothing CONTRIBUTORS(cont'd.) he does could be called brilliant or innovative, but Rene Clair. MICHAELDEMPSEY has studied film at most everything is enhanced by grace, style, mod- UCLA. DAVID DENBY is a graduate student at est but thoughtful imagination. This is a Universal Stanford, working in film aesthetics and history, and shot has a unnatural picture, every slightly and US social history. FOSTERHIRSCH has worked pallor that is the studio's hallmark, so Goldstone's in the New York story of Paramount to us interested in at his departments ability keep looking movie and Fox. DENNIS HUNT is a graduate student at is all the more He has an intuitive impressive. feel- Berkeley. RICHARD T. JAMESON runs an art theater for the of film-whether he wants to ing language in Seattle. WILLIAM JOHNSON, whose article on the Americana of the convey tawdry Indianapolis film music appeared in the Summer 1969 FQ, 500, the violence of the race itself, the loneliness lives in New York. MARGOTS. KERNANhas been of the hero at a celebration-that makes victory his active in film showing in Washington, D.C. next movie worth forward to. looking GEORGE LELLIS lives in New York. JOSEPH Number directed Tom One, listlessly by Gries, MCBRIDE is editor of the Wisconsin Film needs some of the same an Society flair; awkward, old- volume Persistence Vision, and is on a flashback dissolve is of working fashioned technique enough book about Welles. HARRIETR. POLT teaches at to make head for the exit. But anyone looking be- Merritt Oakland.