Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CINEMA...
...operation to remove her beating heart and thus begin his monster. The spectacle is vivid enough to sicken some audiences, but Alan Brien, drama critic of London's Sunday Telegraph, insists that "the sequence is an eyeopener to those who believe the theater cannot match the cinema in projecting images of violence and pain...
Privilege, by Peter Watkins explores the relationship between the fiction film and the documentary, the written script read and performed as cinema verite. In a style most closely resembling a travelogue, Chris Marker's masterpiece Le Mystere Koumiko reveals Japan's national character by following a young girl. Rosselini describes his newest film La Prise de Pouvoir de Louis XIV as an educational film, and indeed, its greatness emerges from the simplistic straight-forwardness of films about artists and poets shown in high school auditoriums. Most recently, Conrad Rooks' extraordinary Chappaqua is, from start to finish, a home movie...
Jonas Mekas, father of the New York underground, once declared, "The home movie is the true folk poetry of the American cinema," and told us to save our 8mm film of family outings and sightseeing tours. The average man doesn't care much about folk poetry; more crucial, perhaps, the reasonably-priced, zoom-lensed, super-8mm movie camera is rapidly becoming the mass-produced means of preserving experience--of making possible the re-running of life at will and at leisure...
...CINEMA...