Word: alfredo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...article in Monday's Crimson made reference to rumors that a conservative student group was sponsoring a visit by President Alfredo Cristiani of El Salvador. At the time, the non-partisan Harvard/Radcliffe Forum on Hispanic Affairs was sponsoring an event in Boyleston Hall, to which Cristiani was not invited...
While protestors were raucously rallying outside Hemenway Gym yesterday, Harvard's men's squash team rallied to a peaceful 8-1 victory over Princeton. Despite the disruption of El Salvador President Alfredo Cristiani appearing with a swarm of Secret Service agents at his son Alex's match, the Crimson didn't let its last big home-sweet-home game of the season turn sour...
Alone in the theater, Father Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste), the little Sicilian town's ex officio movie censor, rings a bell whenever anything on the screen strikes him as salacious. Up in the booth, Alfredo, the projectionist (Philippe Noiret, who is becoming Spencer Tracy to our age), slaps a piece of paper into the reel marking the spot the priest has X-rated. The walls of Alfredo's aerie are festooned with ribbons of film he has cut from movies before showing them to the public, for the good father sees in even the most chaste movie kiss an occasion...
...this alternative religion, Toto will rise from novice (as the projectionist's assistant) to parish priest (he takes over when Alfredo is blinded in a nitrate-film fire) to bishop (he becomes a director). But it is one of the many graces of Cinema Paradiso that it is content merely to observe the analogies between two faiths, not point up the conflict between them. Writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore's manner is gently reflective, not satirical. His largest aim, and greatest success, is to re-create the lost spirit of a vanished movie era: the late 1940s and early...
...much luckier when it comes to work. For there, as the film makes clear in its coda, the example of Alfredo is ever before him. Maybe the old man's business was projecting dreams, but the work was hard, hot, technically fussy and, as the misadventure with the explosive nitrate film proves, dangerous. It was essential for Alfredo to keep his wits, and his skepticism, about him. In other words, to remain open to fantasies but not be consumed by them. These are good lessons for a would-be director. They are good lessons for everybody. And no recent movie...