Word: celluloidal
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...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...
...what is the difference between "celluloid cinema" and bigger television screens...
...There is every evidence that celluloid cinema is going to die. The new technology is leading away from it. The Japanese are throwing away the screen and projector and replacing it with large television screens. Much more information is purveyed in television. But one could almost foretaste the end of television even. The relation to painting is still important...
Just as Indiana Jones fades into movie-hero history, along comes a new celluloid icon: Canada Campeau! The country's National Film Board is finishing up a $1.8 million TV movie called simply Campeau, which traces the career of the Ontario-bred real estate king, Robert. Never mind that Campeau's quixotic takeover of the U.S. department-store chains Allied and Federated led to bankruptcy for both, or that even his own holding company ousted him from its chairmanship. The movie's makers acknowledge that theirs is a "generous" view of Campeau as an enterprising hometown hero who made fortunes...