Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean-louis Barrault's famous, pantomimed re-enactment of an attempted pocket-pick, his face frozen in existential melancholy, is one of the most gaspingly, startlingly, fascinatingly magnificent scenes in world cinema. Beautiful, hilarious, tragic, one of the greatest movies ever made...
...with documentary as well as conventional narrative footage. The life and work of one of the twentieth century's greatest expressionist artists--unappreciated during his lifetime--takes three hours to cover, but they're highly stimulating, educational and visually rewarding. And it's free. Watkins is one of the cinema's most exciting young political filmmakers...
...Bogart fan (and who isn't?) all the goodies, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, etc., will be at the Brattle Cinema as part of their annual Bogart festival. Here's looking...
Schickel, a writer-producer-director of TV documentaries, and cinema reviewer for TIME, is 45 and a veteran of one marriage and one divorce. Yet he writes with the freshness and emotional intensity of a 20-year-old memorializing his first love affair. His book is considerably more resonant than the customary first-love novel, however, perhaps because authors and characters in their 40s have deepened and mellowed, and those in their 20s are too raw to be consistently interesting...
Saturday Night Fever. At Cinema 57, daily...