Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sincerity, that most elusive of virtues, is the one thing that only an individual can truly know, and simultaneously the one virtue that cannot be expressed simply, unlike so many cardboard cinema emotions. What really could be more phony than Richard Nixon's claim, straining for the sincerity he would never achieve, that "I am not a crook"? He who doth protest ... dispenses with any chance of conveying more than the ersatz...
Such incidents are the equivalent of cinema's frozen frames, and they give Weintraub's chronicle the sense of a long documentary film, traversing forgotten years and miles. On the surface, all is anecdote and diversion. But there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein...
...warning, rebel tanks and machine gunners opened fire. The action killed NBC Cameraman Neil Davis, an Australian, and William Latch, his American sound man, who were standing in front of the building. The moment was captured for American television by Davis' still rolling camera: in a macabre example of cinema verite, the veteran journalist had filmed his own death. By early afternoon the loyalists had regained control, and an army spokesman warned the insurgents to surrender or "be crushed completely." Within an hour the rebels gave...
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...darker in the comic nightmare Gremlins, a bit crumpled and smudged in the fun-house frenzy of The Goonies. But the films' very limitations are identity badges on a body of work as personal, even as obsessive, as that of Ingmar Bergman, David Lean or any other monarch of cinema academe. Spielberg the director is supposed to be a movie machine, and if that is so, fine. We need more artisans with his acute eye and gift for camera placement and movement, lighting, editing and the care and feeding of actors. But he is also a compulsive teller of stories...