Word: celluloidal
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This is Murphy's Movie and everything that can possibly go wrong on celluloid does...
This kind of material works best uncinematized -- a radio play with its own gentle celluloid night-light. But Screenwriter Hugh Whitemore and Director David Jones have thrown in trips to Central Park, vignettes of the Doels doing house chores. And Anne Bancroft has provided Helene, a native of Pennsylvania, with a Noo Yawk accent that rasps on the ear. She hurls apostrophes to the walls and abuse at her typewriter. One sighs: Relax, Anne, you got the job. As Frank, though, Anthony Hopkins gets the job done. With shrewd understatement, he fills out the portrait of a man who demands...
...story line could easily support a high-tension adventure thriller: call it Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Celluloid Gods. A major Hollywood motion-picture studio dangles over a financial precipice. Suspense mounts. The studio's grip is slipping. Will a rescue come in time? Yes! No! Wait! A dark and dashing film executive comes running! With amazing speed and savvy, he and a band of executive sidekicks fashion socko new feature films and perform brilliant marketing acrobatics. Finally, the studio swings across the threatening void. On the other side it finds -- what else? -- a king's ransom...
...easy to understand King's fondness for clothbound versions. After all, it is paper more than celluloid that allows him to live in the style of a Down East grand seigneur. The family occupies a 23-room, 129-year-old house ! surrounded by a black iron fence with interwoven designs of bats and spider webs, installed in an excess of whimsy by the owners. The place is within a mile of the down-at-the-heels section of town where the Kings began their odyssey. It has an eccentric charm appropriate to the tenants: one cupola is conical, the other...
...vehicle for this most untalented star to expose her "talent." Now Robbins does not pen great literature--many people would say that Robbins is not a writer, but a man in search of a movie deal--but whatever the book's merits, they were completely lost in its celluloid rendering...