Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared Priestley, "but to offer this dreary, dirty rubbish ... is an insult to our nation." Minister Wilkinson damned such "appealing . . . to the lower side of human nature," urged on schoolgirls (as future mothers and teachers) the goal of ending "things like that." The shocker: a new cinema version of Getting Gertie's Garter...
Olivier's Henry V frees Shakespeare from such Elizabethan limitations. The film runs two hours and 14 minutes. Seldom during that time does it fudge or fall short of the best that its author gave it. Almost continually, it invests the art of Shakespeare - and the art of cinema as well - with a new spaciousness, a new mobility, a new radiance...
...Chorus (Leslie Banks), dissolves in space through a marine backdrop to discover a massive set such as Shakespeare never dreamed of - and dissolves backward in time to the year 1415. Delicately as a photo graphic print in a chemical bath, there emerges the basic style of Shakespearean cinema...
...poetry. Photographic per spectives are shallow, as in medieval paint ing. Most depths end in two-dimensional backdrops. Often as not, the brilliant Technicolor is deliberately anti-natural istic. Voice, word, gesture, human beings, their bearing and costumes retain their dramatic salience and sovereignty. The result is a new cinema style...
Married. Joe E. Lewis, 43, cabaret comedian, and Martha Stewart, 24, cinema starlet; both for the first time; inMiami Beach...