At The Top

The highlights of the term's screenings have undoubtedly been the showings recently of the two features, If the Society had done no more than screen these. It would have still justified its formation.

Julius Caesar, described by Paul Dehn (a leading film writer and student of Shakespeare) as the best filmed Shakespeare yet, was enthusiastically received by the audience at the special screening, and so was repealed the next day, again showing to a large audience. With its fine performance from a star-studded cast and Joseph Manciewicz's reverent but exciting direction, the screening of this masterpiece by the society is something for which we can be very grateful,

Equally a classic is Robert Flaherty's great documentary Louisiana Story. The humanity of Flaherty's conception allied with the pointed and exuberant music by Virgil Thomson (some of the best he has ever done), impresses some not easily forgotten Images in one's mind.