Word: celluloidal
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...Kelly, his face frozen in its 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer grin, is wonderfully, incredibly, exciting to watch in action. Deneuve and Dorleac as twins ("toutes deux demoiselles, ayant eu des amants tres tot") reflect the joy with which Demy exercises the cinema's glorious potential to permanently trap on celluloid supremely magnificent women...
...genial, so temperate, the puppet-dance of "humanoid" and "celluloid" but never the anarchy of unmeaning ragged syllables. Is it unfair to ask for a little brain spread on the table...
among the paper celluloid...
...Mehta was just following the score of Contextures, a new multimedia orchestral work which he commissioned from Composer William Kraft. Accompanying the first movement of Contextures, subtitled "Riots-Decade 60," was a color film in which abstract patterns had been scratched, brushed and drawn on celluloid, and punctuated with black and white stills of last summer's riots in U.S. cities. Accompanying the nonstop fourth and fifth movements was an exacting film inspection of Painter Reginald Pollack's works on the themes of segregation and violence-closeups of hooded Klan marauders, straining limbs, the curled bodies of innocent...
...their lots like caliphs, buying stars like steers, firing directors as easily as office boys, and selecting scripts by gut instinct. And the power vacuum they left behind is being filled by men with polished fingernails and vocabularies to match. The arrival of the newcomers may not guarantee a Celluloid City renaissance. But it has already generated a measurable optimism...