Screen: Semipseudo Cinema Verite and Benighted Viewers

producers---a group that would bentermed "highbrow" by phrenologicalnpartisans. According to Tyrmand, whennthe closing credits roUed on the screen,nthe reaction wasn't a mere jaded shrugnindicating self-importance (i.e., "I'vendone the same things many times in mynfilms"), but a standing ovation, honestnadmiration firom a knowing group. Theynhad . . .