Volume 3, Number 7 · November 19, 1964
No Popcorn
By Robert Brustein
The Second New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
There is a scene in Luis Bunuel's early surrealist movie, L'Age d'Or—a violent spoof of society and religion that was recently shown at the Second New York Film Festival as a breather between the art films—that seems to me to capture admirably the tone of the Festival itself. It shows a group of officials gathering together along a desolate beach for the purpose of laying the foundations of a great city. The ceremony is interrupted for a few moments by a man intent on raping a woman in the mud—but when the culprit is apprehended and led away, the solemnities continue. A Mayor makes a longwinded commemorative speech. A cornerstone is laid. And upon it is placed a substance which could be mortar, but which, on closer inspection, turns out to be manure.
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