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...found triumph." CINEMA: "After 40 years," writes Corliss, "Jean-Luc Godard can still astonish and amuse in the cinematic shorthand he virtually created. Now two of his films, both about moviemaking, are on view: the 1995 'For Ever Mozart' and 'Contempt,' his 1963 meditation on sex, lies and celluloid." Both newly restored after long being out of theatrical circulation, ' the releases "are worth seeing for his encyclopedic wit, the glamour of his imagery, and the doggedness of a man who won?t give up on modernism. Godard keeps searching for first principles in the pettiest human affairs. Godard gazes...
...bustling, big-budget Hollywood movies hits the theaters--and many of them tank. But don't feel sorry for those forlorn moguls. Just because a movie stumbles in the U.S. doesn't mean the rest of the world should be spared it. In fact, the voracious appetite for American celluloid in Europe, Asia and South America is turning many a domestic dog into a foreign blockbuster. Herewith a sampling of recent films that enjoyed just such overseas turnarounds...
...Vertigo." Re-released on video, a reincarnated Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart really rocked the house--and the belltower -- in Hitchcock's celluloid delight...
Tarzan's creator, novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, felt that many of the films made a mockery of his books: Burroughs' hero speaks the King's English; the celluloid Tarzan grunts. But the campiness of the movies is, of course, what makes them so much fun. Unless you are Tarzan scholar George McWhorter, who believes Tarzan appeals because he "represents freedom of choice." For TV viewers, this summer at least, Tarzan represents freedom from reruns of Suddenly Susan...
...commenced shooting in March 1976. A lot of care and effort went into the movie, and the viewer must keep a grain of salt handy as he takes in Lucas' very deliberate use of tried-and-true cliches--phrases as well as general motifs--that suffuse every bit of celluloid in "Star Wars...