Word: depalma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PENN 31, CORNELL 6--The Big Red's Head Trainer is Bernie DePalma. He's going to have a busy day as the Quakers reenact his namesake Brian DePalma's film "Blow Out" on Franklin Field...
...Director Edward DePalma says the greatest problem facing the ex-convicts is rejection caused by general prejudice toward criminal records, both in applying for and after they land jobs. To counter this prejudice, part of the IOU program involves scenarios clients might find in interviews and job sites that allow them to practice their responses...
Currently, DePalma runs IOU solely through donations from both individuals and corporations, and has raised $11,000. But he hopes eventually to win a grant from the state or federal government to expand the program...
...nostalgia must have promoted the film industry to dust off this relic--though a cynic might posit that this early film by now-recognizable stars might be a safe box-office bet. Although the movie reveals the then-burgeoning talents of co-director DePalma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out), actress Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman), and Robert DeNiro (The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull), the film doesn't warrant renewed interest as if it were a resurrected unified piece of art. The public forgot it easily enough in 1969, and--not so strangely--it's as unremarkable...
Initially, The Wedding Party seems like a familiar '20s moving picture parody. Then the footage slows down, and the movie--for all intents and purposes--grinds to a halt. DePalma seems to have experimented with various camera angles and various splicing techniques, as if this film was practice. Although this filming is unusual experimentation with form, it fails in its inability to lift and carry the action...