Word: barren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie begins with a closeup of feet--bare feet, mud-covered feet, crippled feet--in short, feet in their most humble form. It then expands to show a procession of peasants trudging across a barren, almost lunar landscape of huge rocks and cracked terrain. Immediately we see that we have entered the surreal, prehistoric kingdom of Shakespeare's Lear. The next shot shows Lear's huge, imposing castle which rises suddenly and rather unnaturally out of the ground, dwarfing the peasants who in comparison look like a bunch of ants swarming on an anthill. Heightened by the effective...
...brutal wars and ignored promises. He also knows that the miners will use huge amounts of water--possibly the whole of Pine Ridge's aquifer--in the process of extracting the uranium and zeolite, and he knows what strip-mined land looks like, what the acres and acres of barren, torn up, lifeless land could look like. His is the classic Indian dilemma--between development or poverty, neither palatable options--and Reagan has done nothing to get at this...
...tireless quest for realism, Hollywood has already used the war-torn Middle East as a backdrop for such films as Hanna K. starring Jill Clayburgh, and the recently completed The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and Rock Hudson. Now comes The Little Drummer Girl, which was shot on the barren hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka...
Virtually every major director of videos (Mulcahy, Steve Barren, Bob Giraldi, Brian Grant, Paul Justman) is in the throes of making a major studio feature. Warner Bros. Vice President Mark Canton describes the studio's upcoming Vision Quest as Rocky and Flashdance meet The Graduate, and says, "A movie has to feel like sound." Miles Copeland, head of I.R.S. Records and Video, has put together a women's rock group made up half of actresses, half of musicians. The actresses are learning music, the musicians are learning to act, all for a Columbia project called Exceptions...
Michael Jackson: Billie Jean (Steve Barren); Beat It (Bob Giraldi); Thriller (John Landis). Even though Thriller is the most accomplished of the three, just think of all as one-the collected works of soul's youngest past master...