ON: STEVE ALLEN’S MEETING OF MINDS © /*. Steve Allen and prominent historical figures will discuss significant social questions on western -civilization on Meeting of Minds, a six week series _ Foreign films On D Highly acclaimed foreign - films are featured on Public “TV 9's Thursday evening _ -film series for the month of January. “The 400 Blows”, a film . credited. with introducing “The New Wave” to the}. world of filmgoers and filmmakers, begins the month, January 6 at 9 p.m. Highly lyrical and autobiographical, this film, made in 1959, is the first of . several collaborations between director Francois . Truffaut and his alter-ego, actor Jean-Pierre Leaud. The Academy Award for. ‘Best Foreign Film and the Cannes Film Festival grand Prize Award both went to the January 13 selection — . “Black Orpheus”. Produced by Marcel Camus in 1960, |. this film has been praised for its magnificent music and its overwhelming color _ photography. The Orpheus- Eurydice legend which unfolds in modern terms , against a backdrop of Mardi -Gras.in Rio de Janeiro is as miagicalasthe photography. | “Black Orpheus” airs at 9:30 p.m. on- January 13. ‘There will be no film January 20 due to the Inauguration of Jimmy - Carter, broadcast fram 9 to 10:30 p.m, The month ends with - Fellini’s “La Strada’, starring Anthony Quinn, Guilietta Masina -and Richard Basehart. This Academ’ film tells the story of an _ itinerant strongman who buys a mentally retarded: _lass to serve as his clown, “cook. and concubine. But when he is goaded into killing a high wire artist- . clown poet-dreamer the girl . becomes his conscience, and must be left behind. This film airs January 27 at 9 pm. - - “The 400 Blows’, ‘Black Orpheus’’, and ‘La Strada”’ all are part of the Janus Collection, whose acquisition by Public TV 9 _ has been made possible by a .. | special grant from The Post- Intelligencer. PBS’ beginning Monday, January 0 . at 1 p.m. Cleopatra (Jayne Meadows), St. Thomas Aquinas (Peter Bromilow), Theodore. Roosevelt (Joe Earley), and Thomas Paine {Joe Sirola) joined Allen on the first two programs, discussing matters such as war, women’s rights, revolution, the generation gap, socialism, science, art, censorship, punishment, poetry took and the beliefs they -held when alive, they will be aware of the judgements history has made ‘of them. The second show of this sequence airs Monday, _. and _ religion. . Defending: the actions they January 17 at 7:30 p.m. and is rebroadcast Saturday, January 22 at 6 p.m. The third and fourth programs bring together Marie Antoinette (Meadows), Karl Marx (Leon Askin),. Ulysses §. Grant (Earley), and Sir Thomas Moore (Bernard Behrens), Guests for the remaining two episodes include. Attila the Hun (Khigh Dheigh), Emily . (Katherine. Dickinson Helmond), Galileo (Alexander Scourby}, and Charles Darwin . (Murray Matheson). 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