Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOMMY NEAREST Lost? No, she's been found. Jill Clayburgh, iconic, liberated divorce of '70s cinema, is returning to pop culture as an only slightly older-looking unmarried woman. In the NBC sitcom Everything's Relative, Clayburgh is obsessed with her ex and her two grown sons. They're an amusing lot, and, surprisingly, they come from the producers of The Golden Girls...
Your article on Leonardo DiCaprio's filming of The Beach in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park [CINEMA, March 1] was one-sided. You showed an absolute disregard for the environmental issues raised by concerned groups. I am sorry DiCaprio may have had his reputation damaged. However, once he and the film crew are gone, will the precedent they set by filming in a national park make future projects there much more palatable, thus endangering the fragile balance inherent in coastal environments? LISA BEAVERS Misawa, Japan...
Director Elia Kazan is like Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl: a great artist who did bad political deeds [CINEMA, March 8]. His art doesn't cancel out the evil he did in naming names of people who were involved with the Communist Party. Your writer Richard Schickel made the wrong argument in favor of Kazan's honorary Oscar. Schickel stated that Kazan's films are so good that they cancel out his misdeeds, saying history resists easy moralizing. The right argument is that Oscar should be about great art and cinematic achievement, and Kazan deserves the Oscar for that reason. MITCH...
Power. Transgression. Dependency. Possession. They're all part of Psychology Goes to the Movies: Beyond Good and Evil: The Villain Within. In a Sesame Street coincidence, tonight's movie is bought to you by one letter. Fritz Lang's German cinema masterpiece "M" tells the story of police in a German city who must bring in other criminals to help them catch an elusive child-killer. Lesley College Welsh Auditorium, 47 Oxford St. 267-1561. 7:30 p.m. $5 students...
...least implicitly critical of aspects of the ruling theocracy. How do Iran's auteurs pull off this double feat? Frequently, by cloaking grownup stories in toddler raiment. For Iran is not only a leader in world film; it is the leader in children's films. This is Iran's cinema spirit: humanism with a kid's face...