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LIVE LIKE PIGS. In British Playwright John Arden's shattering drama, the passions and frustrations of a nomadic band in a housing development detonate a series of emotional explosions.
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, by Samuel Beckett, and THE ZOO STORY, by Edward Albee. Two fledgling classics—one about an old has-been, the other about a young never-will-be—are unsettling and provocative.
VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's brooding tragedy fuses Greek themes with the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman and his family.
THE ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter's opaque one-acters are skilled finger exercises on the theme of dread.
CINEMA
SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy popular melodrama by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory concerns a German vessel bound from Veracruz to Bremerhaven during the early 1930s. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they have to spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner provide fast company for the long haul.
THESE ARE THE DAMNED. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) unleashes his razzle-dazzle camera techniques in a small science-fiction thriller about a tart (Shirley Anne Field) and a tourist (MacDonald Carey) who stumble onto some nightmarish experiments on the English coast.
THE KNACK. An embattled virgin (Rita Tushingham) fends off three zany British bachelors, millions of sight gags and reels of New Cinema gimmickry in Director Richard Lester's (A Hard Day's Night) version of the New York-London stage hit.
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. True to the spirit of Richard Hughes's classic adventure tale, seven not-so-innocent children put to sea with a scruffy pirate crew led by Anthony Quinn, who finds every tousled head a headache.
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. A corps of high-borne comedians (Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi, Terry-Thomas) barnstorm through a London-Paris air race at the controls of delightful vintage-1910 aircraft—held together by heroism, slapstick and nostalgia.
THE COLLECTOR. In Director William Wyler's grisly but somewhat glamorized treatment of the novel by John Fowles, a lovely art student (Samantha Eggar) wages a war of nerves against a manic lepidopterist (Terence Stamp) who has locked her in a dungeon.
CAT BALLOU. Two no-good gunfighters (both played to perfection by Lee Marvin) brighten a way-out western about a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) who trades readin' and writin' for a catch-up course in train robbery.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death.
THE LOOKING GLASS WAR, by John le Carré. The author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold has written another bleak, absorbing novel about Britain's aging espionage agents, their archaic methods, and their attempts to relive World War II glories in cold war intrigue.