Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 22, 1956

The Grand Maneuver. Rene Clair, vintage 1956, brut—a bubbling tale of love and languishment; with Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe (TIME, Oct. 15).

Yang Kwei Fei. A Japanese interpretation of an old Chinese legend, as slow but sometimes as beautiful as a pipe dream (TIME, Oct. 1).

Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept. 24).

War and Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some of the best...

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