CINEMA
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. There is nostalgically charming Americana in this reel-life pastiche fashioned from Hemingway's autobiographical Nick Adams stories. Paul Newman's portrayal of a punch-drunk old fighter is a memorable acting coup.
Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive social shocker about a Puerto Rican family living in the rat-infested lower depths of Manhattan's Spanish Harlem. Rick Carrier's script, cast, and camera work have a harsh-grained honesty.
Bird Man of Alcatraz calmly examines the strange case of Robert F. Stroud, bird expert, murderer, and holder of the U.S. prison record (43 years) for solitary confinement. Burt Lancaster, as the bird man, and a superb cast make this one of the most powerful prison movies in years.
Ride the High Country and Lonely Are the Brave are off-the-beaten-trail westerns about uncommonly untamed men who refuse to traffic with, or truckle to, a mechanized civilization. The gallant losers include Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (Country) and Kirk Douglas (Brave).
The Concrete Jungle. A saxophoney blues mocks and mourns the rise and fall of the criminal hero in this jagged, jazzy British crime thriller.
Boccaccio '70 is an erotic Italian film, though scarcely a linear descendant of Boccaccio, 1313-1375. Curvilinear stars Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and Sophia Loren lose nothing in translation.
The Notorious Landlady is Kim Novak, and her tenant. Tack Lemmon, does not ask for anything more until Scotland Yard prods him into some horribly funny discoveries.
Lolita, as Sue Lyon impersonates her, could be 17, which is ancient for mymphets. As a result, James Mason's obsession with her seems like just one last pathetic middle-aged man's fling. Peter Sellers saves the scenes he steals.
TELEVISION Wed., Aug. 1
Howard K. Smith: News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* A re-evaluation of the important developments of the week.
Focus on America (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Biography of the Hudson River, the life around it, and its importance to the life and economy of its valley.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A semidocumentary about the work of marriage counselors.
Thurs., Aug. 2
The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS is experimenting with a new technique in this program, one of a four-part series. The two men ramble around Mac-Leish's farm at Conway, Mass., and talk about anything that comes into their poetic brains—without the aid (or interference) of a network commentator.
Fri., Aug. 3
College All-Star Football Game (ABC, starting at 10 p.m.). The top college players of last season v. the professional champion Green Bay Packers in Chicago.
Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The top news story of the week.
Sat., Aug. 4
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal.
Sun., Aug. 5
Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Guest: Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges.
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Bareback riding, broncobusting, calf roping, steer wrestling, etc., at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo.