Michael Levenson

Elsewhere Over the Rainbow

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H AVING MADE MY WAY through the 760 pages of Gravity's Rainbow, I am sorely tempted to say that you

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The films of the Dziga-Vertov group are, in this sense, films of struggle. To begin to talk about them, you

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I F NOTHING DRASTIC is done. Francois Truffaut will soon pass quietly into insignificance. And that is too bad--it was

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C HIMERA is not Barth's best book. It is not really even close. But it is serious experimentation of a

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S O MANY PEOPLE have said so many nice things about La Salamandre, one more word of praise will doubtless

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I BET Peter Bogdanovich lies in bed nights, dreaming of limousines and sunglasses and breasty starlets with thighs in their

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M ORE THAN Hamlet and more than Lear, Macbeth and the movies are made for each other. Of the great

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W ITHOUT so much as a last gasp, the movies' New Romanticism has vanished as quickly as it came. Meanwhile,

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M arlowe's Dr. Faustus turned up on television this past summer with Richard Burton in the title role and Elizabeth

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T here is inside war, and there is outside war. Most of us have watched Vietnam only from the outside--where