Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most telling moment in the hour or two of celluloid I sat through with a bunch of weird-looking film critics at a special screening of "The Chase" last week: not when a truck-load of corpses spilled onto the highway, creating "mass havoc," not when the heroine "comically" vomited out of her car window; not when Anthony Kiedis and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers made a dorky cameo; not even when the two protagonists, a kidnapper and his hostage, had sex in a speeding car with thirty cops on their tail. No, it was none of these...
...sophisticated art emerged. A girl might dance with her cartoon hero made flesh; stokers on a great ship might feel a little better hearing the friendly competition of high notes from opera stars many decks above them. And for Guido in 8 1/2, it is the knowledge that on celluloid he can do anything: reunite lovers, reconcile families, turn dream into drama and * lead all life's players in a dance around the center ring. Who else has such sorcerer's power? And who, besides Fellini, used that power with such wondrous recklessness...
...anyone who's seen the movie, the answer is as plain as the blowhole on the killer whale's head. The lovable celluloid cetacean has been wrenched away from his orca family, which lingers loyally within squealing distance just offshore, and his unscrupulous owner wants to kill the prisoner for his life insurance. Even Captain Ahab would vote to let Willy out of his watery cell...
...Coneheads," the new Dan Aykroyd-Jane Curtin comedy about pointy-headed aliens who immigrate to Earth, is, as its main characters would say, a celluloid presentation with only one amusement unit...
...film's characters are simply more memorable--and seem more real--than those in movies which are supposed to be about real life (such as the overrated Nora Ephron snoozer "Sleepless in Seattle"). For all the focus on head shapes, this celluloid presentation is special because it's got something very human: corpuscle-churning muscle, also known as "heart...