Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ROBERT BRESSON, 98, acclaimed film director whose emphasis on image over dialogue helped redefine French cinema; near Paris (see Eulogy...
...Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs. Now jump-cut to 1990, when they sell an original comedy about a bad seed called Problem Child but become dejected by the unfunny film that is made. To cheer themselves up, they write a spec script about the worst auteur in cinema history, Ed Wood. Batman director Tim Burton reads it and signs on, and when the movie garners critical praise, the guys decide to stick with their new formula. "Most biopic pitches you hear in Hollywood are about 'The first person to blah-blah-blah,'" says Columbia's executive vice president...
...MATRIX With its dazzling effects and the dizzying ways it toys with reality, virtual and actual, this film may or may not portend cinema's future. But who cares about that when what we have from Larry and Andy Wachowski is a demonically hip, computer-driven reimagining of the dorked-out sci-fi tradition...
...advanced graphics card that slides inside your PC (you need a Windows machine with a Pentium II 233-MHz or faster processor) and an external hub that takes analog video from myriad sources (VCR, cable TV, camcorder) and puts it on your computer screen. The accompanying software, called Avid Cinema, provides the easy-step editing tools. The quality of the new video you create is only as good as the original source, however, so you won't be able to touch up that grainy Christmas '87 segment...
...finished Cronica de Una Muerta Anunciada (Chronicle of A Death Foretold), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "He's Columbian," Luis explained, "but heis lived in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. He told Fidel he was going to help, and he did. Fidel adores and admires him. He started a school of cinema there and has a house." Many stores in the area sell publications from El Salvador. "I keep up with the sports there, new projects, and how the economy's going...