Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MIAMI VICE (NBC). Unlike most of the season's new shows, this hard-nosed police series has actually improved since its pilot. The first network series since Hill Street Blues to establish a unique look and tone: an alluring mix of cinema verite grit and rock-video glitz...
These are awesome images, astonishing images. But in the superb film that David Lean has made from E.M. Forster's sublime novel A Passage to India, their function far transcends the purely pictorial. In Lean's cinema there is no such thing as an idle shot, something that survives to the final cut merely because it is striking in its beauty or novel in its impact. Particularly in the Lean films that people conveniently but mistakenly identify as "epics" or "spectacles"?movies like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago?the largest weight...
...definitely an intriguing film and helped define the science fiction genre. It must be remembered that when the film opened in 1968, man had yet to walk in space, put laboratories and reusable space vehicles into orbit or even land on some of our neighboring planets. New cinema to graphic techniques and plot design helped to make that film a true classic...
Reviewer Richard Corliss maintains that sexually violent movies do not influence viewers toward similar acts and that suppressing such films will not end violent behavior [CINEMA, Oct. 29]. However, the youths who raped a young girl in imitation of the movie Born Innocent and the spouses who tried to kill their mates after seeing the TV movie The Burning Bed are examples of how some personalities are affected by these films. They see the movie as a rationale for their own violent impulses. While I do not believe in censorship, I do not think everyone is capable of separating fact...
Schygulla, though, is a prima donna of passion. She learned her trade making 18 movies and TV films with the bold, relentless Wunderkind of German cinema, R.W. Fassbinder (Effi Briest, The Marriage...