Word: celluloidal
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...many in the business, his name means money out of the bank. His last film, Year of the Dragon, got mixed reviews and was a box-office flop; the one before, Heaven's Gate, wrote the book--and was the subject of one--on celluloid disasters. But that has not stopped Director Michael Cimino from undertaking yet another big-budget epic: The Sicilian, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel. Now being filmed in Italy, the movie centers on the short, bloody career of Italian Gangster Salvatore Giuliano, a real-life Robin Hood of the late '40s who dreamed...
Marble, wood and bronze remained fundamental materials, but they were used in unorthodox ways; and in addition, a sculptor could use any kind of junk, from cardboard, tin and pine boards (the stuff of Picasso's and Laurens's cubist constructions) to the wire and celluloid favored by constructivists, the steel plates and boiler ends forged by Smith, and so on down to rocks, twigs, burlap, twine or even the artist's own dung, which, canned and labeled by the Italian Piero Manzoni in 1961, provided a nastily prophetic comment on fetishism in late modern art. On its road away...
...this was beginning to take promising shape on paper in late 1983. But paper is not celluloid. And Cameron and Hurd needed a track record to support their developing vision. Luckily, it came in a rush. First, casting and finance finally came together for The Terminator script, which he directed and she produced. (It was during postproduction that their professional relationship turned into a romance that led to marriage ten months later.) In the meantime, he finished the script on which Sylvester Stallone did his usual devastating rewrite -- and turned into Rambo. The Terminator was a low-budget ($6.5 million...
...CINEMA LAND, the line between fantasy and reality is particularly thin and fragile, like a strip of celluloid viewed edgewise. Movies are supposed to imitate life, but they merely imitate other movies. If you doubt this, try counting the number of times Shane, The Front Page or The Maltese Falcon have been rehashed. It's often left up to reality to conform to the images we see on our movie or TV screens, sometimes in very perverse ways...
...action-adventure it lacks a single good chase scene. It fails as a high-tech extravaganza because the only impressive special effect makes the heroine's skirt blow up. And if it's a film about the newest hunk o' celluloid, there has got to be some necking, at least, but there...