PTwO THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAYMAY 9, 1967 FILMS Kennedy Avoids Recei superior Quality of 'La Dolce Vita' Survives Over Johnson's War P tt Clash 'olicies )espite Severe Deletion of Important Scenes By ANDREW LUGG Italian Cinema has produced two "golden ages." The first, in the forties, started with Rossel- lini's "Open City" and culminated with Visconti's "La Terra Trema." And the second, beginning in 1959 with Antgnionis "L'Avventura" and in 1960 with Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," still goes on. Fellini has played a major part in this latter upsurge of high qual- ity films. Thus, the Vth Forum's revival of "La Dolca Vita," not only reiterates this cinema's avow- ed intent: the showing of "art- films," which is always praise- worthy, but is also useful for a re- appraisal of Fellini's work. Before discussing this further, however, a strong reservation con- cerning the version shown, must be lodged. The film has been cut by some fifteen to twenty min- utes with the result that three im- portant scenes have been omitted: one where the central character, Marcello, (Mastroianni) is reas- sured by a friend of his that he can write and is not just another "cheap" journalist; a later se- quence, in which Marcello learns that his friend has killed himself, along with his two children; and finally a very long scene in which he and Emma (a woman hyster- ically in love with him) go to the site of a supposed vision of the Virgin Mary. These cuts -are extremely im- portant to the film, since they are an integral part in Marcello's movement from some sort of hope in "salvation," paradise to his complete disillusionment. At this point, he is half-dead, and as many writers have noted he knows that he has been confined to the in- ferno. The first of the two events which were cut gives him hope, but then dashes it to the ground- intellect, even, could not keep his friend alive. The second cut scene shows, as people get crushed under foot when rushing to get a glimpse of the two children who claim to have had the vision, that religion also is of no help. In addition it establishes reasons for his later rejection of Emma. Such cutting is inexcusable, es- pecially since the posters claimed' that this version was uncut and uncensored. But, do not think that the cinema is to blame. This isa just another incident of the dis- honesty of distributors. Purists wil further object to the dubbing. However, this is not a; print that I will push, because it was done reasonably carefully and Italian films, anyway, are almost all post-synchronized. Very rarely do we hear the actual voice of the; actor or actress. Mastroianni dubs himself, but Fellini very regularly1 uses other voices than those of his actors. On the credit side, we for once see the film in full size cinerma- scope, an event no Film Society in this town can achieve. The spec- tacle of "La Dolce Vita" demands this sort of monumentality. In- deed, aside from Godard's brief1 excursion into scope, I can think of nobody who has used the wide- screen to better effect than Fel- lini does here., . Two examples are- the arrival of Sylvie, a top-heavy American movie-star (Anita Ekberg's finest role), at Rome airport (surely such an onslaught by photographers, reporters and Ekberg's breasts could not be limited to the regular screen size?) and Maddalena, an heiress, and Marcello going into a prostitute's house to make love., Here Fellini manages to give the event the refinement that it de- serves. The small screen would have made it 1 o o k "terribly squalid." In a phrase the filming is mag- nificent. Now getting back to my opening remarks, I can assert that Fellini's contribution to this new "golden age" lies in the manner in which he has developed a cinematic lan- guage to present what is a very personal vision. In "La Dolce Vita" he shows the inferno into which a society can force the individual. He extends' the language in "812" to illustrate the inferno within an individual. Space restrictions prevent a thorough going discussion of the plot. Let it be said, nevertheless, that this proceeds discontinuously, the "tableaus" presented having more to do with "states of being" than with chronology. The film, however, has a unity which com- pletely and ruthlessly lays bare Marcellp's torment; from his tacit rejection to final acceptance of: "life here is hell." By JACK BELL Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON-Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) has retired tem- porarily to the side lines while other critics continue to snipe at President Johnson's Vietnam war policies. Kennedy deliberately avoided any involvement in the most re- cent clash over a Senate Republi- can Policy Committee report sharply critical of Johnson's con- duct of the war and what it called the administration's failure to push for peace negotiations. While Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D- Ark.) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a fellow critic, praised the GOP report, the New York senator fended off questions. He declined, for example, to comment on the assertion of Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) that the Johnson admin- istration has so boxed itself in that Aiken doubts it ever can make an honorable peace. Clash' Since his bitter Feb. 6 clash with Johnson at the White House after his return from a tour of European capitals, Kennedy has made only one major speech on policy. He proposed in the Senate on March 2 that bombing of North Vietnam be halted as a step to- ward peace negotiations, an idea that the White House and State Department rejected. Subsequently Kennedy avoidedl the Vietnam subject in an April 22 talk to the Amercian Society of Newspaper Editors and has kept away from it in his rate Senate speeches. If this is a "new" Kennedy, associates think his stance is in- duced by several considerations. First among these is his declared intention of campaigning actively for the expected Johnson-Hum- phrey ticket in 1968. Kennedy obviously doesn't want to widen his public differences with Johnson to the point where it would be any more embarrassing for them to campaign together than it already is. ! Behind Kennedy's new silence there is also the bleak acceptancek of the fact that almost anything he says about foreign policy will meet automatic resistance from the administration. Kennedy is not about to change his mind on Vietnam. His private opinion is that Johnson may be* on a collision course with Red China in what he regards as the President's determination to win a clearcut military victory over North Vietnam. 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