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Word: arriflex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their first auditions, the moments when someone looked and guessed correctly that the Arriflex cameras would like what they saw, are so far in the past for some of these veterans that it is hard for them to remember how they felt. Lane, who was six when she won a role in a La Mama Theater production of Medea?in Greek?was asked to say words backwards to determine her linguistic facility. Shields had to smash plates, because the young whore in Pretty Baby has a scene in which she smashes glass photographic plates. Mariel Hemingway did not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...held by egoists. Even after one term of Nixonism, with another to come. Don Siegel's director cult is still ready to defend Dirty Henry for its mise on scene. Even if the film craze has slowly puttered out, every adolescent artiste still yearns for an Eclair or an Arriflex. The Village Voice has gotten slightly better--it featured some good convention coverage. Andrew Sarris has gotten slightly worse...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Decline and Fall of a Film-Watcher | 11/22/1972 | See Source »

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