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...Michelangelo Antonioni (“L’Avventura,” “Blowup”), Ingmar Bergman (“The Seventh Seal”), and Akira Kurosawa (“Rashomon”) in the middle third of the 20th century.But without Janus Films, a distribution company based at the Brattle Theater, these artistes and their masterpieces might not have reached a broader American audience—it’s all relative, after all.At the very least, these movies wouldn’t have been shown in art-house theaters across the country, and wouldn?...
Alternating between first person and third person omniscient narration, Sharp vividly renders the inner lives of both 20th century legends—Balanchine and his muse Suzanne Farrell, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, among others—and her own fictive characters—primarily figured as members of the real NYCB or American Ballet Theater (ABT). She lends an aura of verisimilitude to her readers’ vicarious participation in the lived experience of dance...
...Esther. The movie opened in 900 theaters on Oct. 13 and has grossed $10 million so far, with lush costumes and sets, newcomer Tiffany Dupont in the title role and cameos by Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole, their first screen pairing since Lawrence of Arabia. In September, 20th Century Fox announced plans to release about half a dozen Christian-theme films a year in theaters under the banner FoxFaith. Facing the Giants, an independent evangelical football movie written and produced by a couple of Baptist ministers from Georgia, has made $7.6 million since it opened in limited release...
...good is Thriller? Put it on right now, and you'll be amazed at how easily the most frightening public image of the late 20th century melts away. Michael Jackson was 24 when he released what became the best-selling album of all time (until it was eclipsed in the late '90s by the eponymous Eagles: Their Greatest Hits, 1971-1975). And there's no whining about celebrity, no messiah complex, just nine immensely catchy tracks, seven of which went...
...death - as well as the usual art-market maneuvering - colored the public perception of him. Curator Smith believes there is a "a respectful distance now," and what his exhibition and John Gregory's accompanying book offer is a perfectly timed take on the last great Australian artist of the 20th century...