Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cocteau's movie is the sort of dream you would have if you fell asleep with your head on a deluxe illustrated edition of Grimm's tales. It is perhaps the most sumptuous and satisfying version of a fairy tale ever put on celluloid, candy for the eyes and a banquet for the aesthete. Above all, it is a swooningly romantic film graced with many visual miracles. And, like love, "Beauty and the Beast" is a dream from which you never want to wake...
...everyday life. The exhibition spans the history of the Walt Disney Company, from "Steamboat Willie" (the first animated film to feature Mickey Mouse and a synchronized soundtrack) to "The Prince and the Pauper," Disney's 1990 animation short. The exhibit includes preliminary drawings, movie posters, and frames of celluloid animation film ("cells"). The sequence of drawings for "The Prince and the Pauper" includes a story sketch, which captures the mood of the story; rough drawings of the extreme points of the character's movements; "clean up animations"; and a cell with a painted background that can be used for more...
...complete with filmed biographies by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creators of TV's Designing Women and Evening Shade. One of the highlights was a 1963 film clip showing John Kennedy shaking hands in the Rose Garden with the 16-year-old Clinton, a priceless piece of celluloid that Clinton aide Frank Greer dug out of the Kennedy Library...
...Washington's Kennedy Center through this week, is gloriously mounted if scantily plotted. Its showy numbers evoke radio, pop music and the 1936 Olympics but focus on the movies, especially as seen by a Jewish actor turned exile and a matronly costume aide who deplores patriotic bunkum yet finds celluloid dreams irresistible...
Mick Jagger is back after a long absence from the film world. The man who remains at the very heart of rock legend has never become any more than a trivial celluloid figure, shooting with increasing rapidity toward the margins and fringes of the film universe's great trash heap. The pile is already overflowing. Masterpieces featuring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (together) lie there and fester. And they're joined by the works of Christopher Reeve, Sophia Copola, whoever played Enzo the Baker (favorite line: "Hello, I'm Enzo the Baker, don't you remember me?), Mark Hamill...