Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something more like a love feast than a conflict of wills, 18 malleable members of the New York Film Critics elected their 1941 cinema "bests" in less time than it takes to run off a double feature and a couple of shorts...
...only one shot at his. His ending is box office, his story not sharply pointed, but he does manage to convey the airless but comfortable feeling of Boston, the pitifully habit-bound horizon of his Pulham (Robert Young), and to turn out a half-dozen sequences that are superb cinema...
...President of the U.S. last week gave the people of the U.S. satisfaction for Pearl Harbor. Long after the last blaze at Pearl Harbor had been doused, masses of smoke still billowed on cinema screens, the pictures of wreckage spread angry disaster across newspapers. There was no public cry for a scapegoat, but the nation wanted: 1) to know why the bombing attack had been permitted to happen; 2) to be reassured that it would not happen again...
...Symphony's membership (it ranges from 65 to no) is made up of skilled men from cinema studio orchestras, plus a few radio and Los Angeles Philharmonic players. In its year and a half of playing it has fiercely shunned publicity...
...which three or four years ago was lifted almost bodily from the stage to the screen, and was equally effective in its new medium. Following closely in this tradition is "Ladies in Retirement," last year's number one Broadway mystery drama, and one of this season's first-rate cinema thrillers...