Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, bat letters should not exceed 300 words. The World of 'Le Monde' In a letter published in The New Leader of...
...Legris worked for Le Monde for 16 years, so that, in addition to shattering its facade of objectivity by detailing its biased, distorted reporting, he is able to offer intriguing observations on behind the scenes activities at the newspaper...
...They did abuse the language, they did speak and act without logic, they were unjustly disruptive, their behavior often did hurt their own cause, they did value a deadening, brainless high...
...Cinematic self-consciousness gives us poor films like Inserts and Gable and Lombard, to be sure...
...For it seems now that the '60s were the only time since World War II when the people of this country consciously united in a cause...
...I suspect that when directors stop making movies about movies and start making them about life, we'll be in a lot of trouble...
...Moreover, while it is true that the counterculture tended to promote a dull sameness in matters of dress and thought, there is another side to that coin as well...
...McCabe and Mrs...
...But it also gives us wonderful ones like Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, Day for Night, and even What's Up Doc...
...Still, I can't help feeling that Goodman is missing out on something...
...but how much that is legal in our society is even more shameful, and how innappropriate was it for the boys to have dramatically pointed this out...
...The Woodstock Nation may have been a fantasy, but it was a remarkable, even beautiful one...
...The antics of the Chicago Eight were shameful, and illegal...
...I think Walter Goodman needs to be reminded that there is a time for irony and elegant phrasing, and there is a time for commitment...
...Paris John Rehfisch Self-Conscious Cinema Robert Asahina is right about the alarming degree of inbreeding in Hollywood ("Portraits of the Artist," NL, April 12...
...Detroit David Stempel...
...The Long Goodbye about the private-eye film, MASH the war picture, and Nashville the Grand Hotel-style extravaganza...
...According to the International Herald Tribune of last March 26, Le Monde "sought to prevent publication of the book by threatening to refuse reviews in Le Monde to all books from any house that brought it out...
...New York City Andrew McDonald Woodstock Revisited Walter Goodman's lament to the '60s ("Goodbye to AH That," NL April 12) rubbed me the wrong way...
...Miller is as much about the Western as anything else...
...I hope English translations of both Hostert's and Legris' books will be published, since the English excerpts from Le Monde, distributed as a section of the Manchester Guardian Weekly, is widely read and taken as gospel...
...A second book on this subject has just been published here that I think will be of interest to your readers: 'Le Monde' te...
...Having read his goodbye to the '60s, I seriously doubt if he ever said hello...
...The best thing about the genres and conventions of American movies is the way they have been used and changed, the way they constantly generate new meanings...
...qu'il est by Michel Legris...
...the hippies (even the word sounds almost unbearably dated) were and are guilty of a good deal...
...The World of 'Le Monde' In a letter published in The New Leader of December 23, 1974, referring to a May 18 "Euro-Vista" column by Ray Alan, I wrote about Guy Hostert's exposure of Le Monde's Communist bias in Le journal 'Le Monde' et le Marxisme...
...The works of Robert Altman, in particular, are testimony to how artistically productive old movies can be...
...We could not have had The Godfather without Scar-face, or Young Frankenstein, in fact, without The Bride of Frankenstein...
...But I think he is neglecting one of the most important and exciting characteristics of popular culture, the capacity for self-reference...
...It's not that he doesn't have a point...
Vol. 59 • April 1976 • No. 9
