Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gone without trace--Bergman's loving concentration on the faces of the two woman, his split-screen sequences, his reminders that Persona is a film and not reality, conveyed by shots which include his cameras, himself, and random footage from his earlier movies. Finally, he burns up the celluloid itself, on screen, to bring this home to his viewers...
...atrocity dulled by time, in which children play "Nazis and Jews" (the destruction of Warsaw was, after all, a dangerous business), and in which an actor famous for portraying death-camp officers is feted, as a joke, of course, by the University of Heidelberg humor magazine. "The old celluloid hero had his bluff called by the raucous students, and he took it like a man. Except for a few spoil sports, a good time was had by all." Undoubtedly there will be efficient means for dealing with spoil sports...
...celluloid as in petroleum, value is determined by scarcity. From the '30s to the '50s, Hollywood produced hundreds of popular entertainments that audiences and critics considered standard fare. Now that the major studios have shrunk slowly in the West, the antique movies have been revalued upward. According to many film scholars and au-teurists, old Hollywood seems to have been an amalgam of quattrocento Florence and Periclean Greece...
...polemical zeal to point out discrepancies left unresolved in the courtroom, Charach raises another serious question: the validity of his own cut-and-splice technique of trial by celluloid...
...specific works are less important than the atmosphere Disney created. Art, or some kinds of it (visionary, surrealist, erotic), has the power to expand the limits of fantasy. Disney could not push those too far without ceasing to be Mr. Clean, the celluloid geneticist who ingeniously bred the anus and genitals out of the animal kingdom, the trusted entertainer whose mandate was to give children the dreams adults like them to have. And so his achievement became a large shift in the limits of unreality, which is not by any means the same thing as art. The shows and puppetry...