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BORIS GODUNOV (Angel). Highlights from Moussorgsky's masterpiece sung by the black-voiced Bulgarian basso, Boris Christoff. His characterization of Godunov is justly renowned. "Always I die new deaths. Always I change," says Christoff. Here he dies a brooding, pitiful sinner, and in the Clock Scene, the terror of his guilt creeps into his voice as quietly as a spreading stain.
CINEMA
THE ORGANIZER. Director Mario (Big Deal on Madonna Street) Monicelli's vivid, moving, timelessly beautiful portrait of 19th century Italy comes into sharp focus on Marcello Mastroianni, demonstrating his remarkable versatility as a socialist Savonarola who leads Turin textile workers in a strike that fails.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Istanbul provides an exotic backdrop for the harem-scare-'em adventures of James Bond, alias 007, alias Sean Connery. A sly spoof of Ian Fleming's fiction.
THE GRAND OLYMPICS. Made in Italy, this color sportstacular dazzlingly synthesizes the glory that was Rome's during the summer Olympiad of 1960.
THE NIGHT WATCH. This perceptive French thriller follows five jailbirds along an underground escape route and unearths a bitter tale of dishonor among men.
BECKET. Richard Burton is England's 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury, Peter O'Toole is King Henry II—both bring grandeur to a stunning, cerebral spectacle based on the drama by Jean Anouilh.
THE SERVANT. As a conniving "gentleman's gentleman" who masters his master, Dirk Bogarde puts a fine polish on Director Joseph Losey's study of class distinction in Britain.
THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT spins hilariously when Concert Pianist Peter Sellers finds his private life ruined by rambunctious Teen-Agers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth.
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Stanley Kubrick's black comedy about nuclear war features fine performances by Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and the ubiquitous Peter Sellers.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. Disporting themselves con brio, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni make memorable fun of three zesty folk tales directed by Vittorio De Sica.
THE SILENCE. A litany on selfishness, loneliness and death, starkly told and austerely photographed, with a cast of non-normal characters directed with brooding penetration by Ingmar Bergman.
TOM JONES. Lusty lads pursue busty maids through "Best" Director Tony Richardson's wonderfully wicked assault on Fielding's 18th century classic. Winner of four 1963 Oscars.
BOOKS
Best Reading
CRISIS IN BLACK AND WHITE, by Charles E. Silberman. The author believes that the best, in fact the only, way to achieve equality and integration is by massive, militant drives in housing, schools and jobs. A thoughtful study of the Negro revolution at a crucial stage.
KING EDWARD THE SEVENTH, by Philip Magnus. It was "Prince Bertie's" misfortune that he had to wait 40 years of his adult life before he could take over from his mother, Queen Victoria, but he filled the years by becoming monarch of his own kingdom of society's scandal and fashion.