Word: celluloidal
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When Myrtle Anderson's daughter Joan lived at home in Saskatoon, Sask., she was a rebel. She danced the wicked twist ignored her math, spent Saturdays sketching Indians and communed only with her celluloid idol James Dean. But Mrs. Anderson's girl turned out different from most of the teen-agers living for the rock-'n'-roll scene. She learned to play the guitar and discovered that she had a fluent talent for words. Today, as Joni Mitchell, she is a creative force of unrivaled stature in the mercurial world of rock. Help Me, a single...
...waiting audience's patience. Furthermore, the two-part format of the concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like a marionette with rubber bands instead of strings for support, he was either pinching brother and lead guitarist Dave Davies or exercising his mesmerizing ability on the audience...
...demands are, in the end, a minor part of the MTM schedule. Both Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show are filmed on the spot where Mack Sennett once ran his fun factory. It is as delightful to work there in 1974 as it must have been in old Celluloid City...
Similarly, the attempt to make Paul's western apocalypse seem beautiful fails; it is as dull as the desert sand. Yet Winner depends exclusively on glib celluloid statements to establish points. The Kerseys are in love--because a golden sundown silhouettes them when they embrace...
...great critical hope of stirring scenes." If the film had used the subtitle, its viewers would have been correct in just such an assumption. Bogdanovich can't offer anything beyond a literal, superficial interpretation in his Daisy Miller. Sexual undertones are about as subtle as the emulsion on celluloid; without them it couldn't work at all; with them it's just barely worth seeing. But be warned: take James's words to heart...