Mein Kampf. A calm, fair, objective and appalling documentary of Hitler and his gruesome works, compiled from news reels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret-police footage by Swedish Film Maker Erwin Leiser.
La Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's vast (three hours) dramatization of the Apocalypse as a modern saturnalia wallows in boredom, but also develops episodes of transcendent moral horror.
Days of Thrills and Laughter. Silent comedy, including Charlie Chase, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks.
L'Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach--characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death."
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Newcomer Albert Finney battles society in the best British film to come along since Room at the Top.
Shadows. Led by Actor-Turned-Director John Cassavetes, actors improvise a film on racial tensions and make some howling blunders--but also, almost accidentally, a significant piece of folk art.
TELEVISION
Thurs., May 4
Brand Names Foundation Dinner (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.).* An address by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Pre-empts Face the Nation.
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). D. W. Griffith's America. The American Revolution, with Lionel Barrymore.
Fri., May 5
The Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). In "The Joke and the Valley," Dean Stockwell is an idealistic stranger, Thomas Mitchell and Keenan Wynn the rustic pranksters. Justice triumphs. Color.
Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Walter Cronkite and CBS reporters focus on a major news story of the week.
Sat., May 6
Kentucky Derby (CBS, 5:15-5:45 p.m.). Watch yourself lose the office pool.
The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "Are Labor Unions Too Powerful?" Teamster Boss James Hoffa argues that they are not; Publisher Arthur H. Motley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, disagrees. NBC's John K.M. McCaffery moderates.
Sun., May 7 Washington Conversation (CBS, 12-12:30 p.m.). Correspondent Paul Niven interviews British Novelist C. P. Snow.
Accent (CBS, 12:30-12:55 pm.). James Fleming chats with famed Photographer Edward Steichen.
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rebroadcast of the grim documentary, Suicide Run to Murmansk, the story of a World War II convoy that lost 22 of 33 merchant ships.
Winston Churchill--The Valiant Years
(ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Plans are drawn for the final assault on Germany.
Tues., May 9
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). "The World of Penguins," invaded by an expedition to the Falkland Islands.
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). "The Land of the White Ghost"--Part 1 of a series on Africa.
THEATER
On Broadway
Carnival! The magic world of a Continental circus comes alive in this pleasant and colorful reprise of the movie Lili. Anna Maria Alberghetti sings engagingly as the waif, and Jerry Orbach is the deft and terrible-tempered puppetmaster, but nimble Pierre Olaf tops the show in a jubilant dance.
A Far Country. This study of Sigmund Freud and his famous patient Elizabeth von Ritter, although somewhat broken in impact, provides an often vibrant blend of theater and truth. The play offers a vital portrait of Freud (Steven Hill), a crucial delineation of Elizabeth (Kim Stanley).
Big Fish, Little Fish. An honest, unhackneyed, sometimes labored comedy about a has-been editor who lands in the frying pan of false success.
Mary, Mary. Jean Kerr's often funny, always likable, verbal pingpong match between a wisecracking divorcee and her publisher husband is just diverting enough to overcome the rather thin narrative.
The Devil's Advocate. High-intentioned and penetratingly provocative, this play, which asks the large questions, is nonetheless too theatrical.
Irma La Douce. Paris, prostitutes and England's sprightly Elizabeth Seal in a frothy, piquant French musical.
Rhinoceros. Conformity gets a rhinoceros-hiding in lonesco's funny but farfetched allegory.
All the Way Home. Despite its inadequacies, more small coins of pure silver and less stage money than any other American play of the season.
Also recommended: Camelot, A Taste of Honey, Advise and Consent, An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
Off Broadway
Brightest on the byways: Under Milk Wood, a lyrical evocation of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' imaginary town; Call Me by My Rightful Name, a fresh look at interracial misfits by New Playwright Michael Shurtleff; The American Dream, Edward Albee's subdued but effective dissection of modern man; The Connection, a relentless study of narcotics and nihilists; The Zoo Story, another Albee commentary, wedded to Samuel Beckett's monologue, Krapp's Last Tape; In the Jungle of Cities, Bertolt Brecht's intriguingly offbeat early effort; Hedda Gabler, an excellent production of the Ibsen classic; and the durable Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein classic, The Threepenny Opera.
On Tour
Becket. Arthur Kennedy as the archbishop and Sir Laurence Olivier, a formidable Henry II. Philadelphia, May 1-6. Reopening on Broadway: May 8-27.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Lanterns and Lances, by James Thurber. More fun than a barrel of money.
Phaedra and Figaro, translated by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. Two dramas of sexuality, one tragic and one comic, rendered with a high skill that does justice to the fiery poetry of Racine and the bubbling word play of Beaumarchais.
Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, by John Cheever. Pursuing the invisible fly in the embittering ointment of their lives, John Cheever's decent middle-class people drop into a limbo of alcoholic oblivion, sexual promiscuity and lonely despair that very much resembles hell.
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. An engrossing portrait of a legendary eccentric of British East Africa, C.J.P. lonides, whose passion is the care and capture of snakes.
The Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. The Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la difference!
The New English Bible. A translation of the New Testament designed to make the Scripture intelligible to moderns who find much of the 17th century King James version unintelligible.
The Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus.
The French Revolution, by Georges Pernoud and Sabine Flaissier. A spirited tabloid of the Terror culled from some 50,000 eyewitness accounts.
Seven Plays, by Bertolt Brecht. Roguish laughter, a cynic's sneer, tears of compassion, and a lacerated concern with the spectacle of man selling his fellow man.
Best Sellers ( previously included in TIME'S choice of Best Reading) FICTION 1. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (1)*
2. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (2)
3. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (3)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (6)
5. Hawaii, Michener (4)
6. Midcentury, Dos Passes (7)
7. Advise and Consent, Drury (5)
8. Manila Galleon, Mason
9. China Court, Godden (8)
10. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward
NONFICTION 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)
2. The New English Bible (2)
3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (3)
4. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (4)
5. Who Killed Society? Amory (6)
6. Japanese Inn, Statler (7)
7. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (5)
8. Skyline, Fowler (8)
9. The White Nile, Moorehead (9)
10. The Sixth Man, Steam (10)
* Position on last week's list. -All times are E.D.T.
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