Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quest for a simple, inexpensive color process, the invention of the Roux brothers seemed too good to be true. Moviemakers had seen too many processes come & go to get excited. But research cameramen have long worked to perfect a process in which the lens and not the film would be the principal color agent. Up to now, experiments with such lenses have not worked out commercially. Hollywood wanted to hear more...
...film sometimes lies limp under such feeble abracadabra, but sometimes it stands on end at a weird glimpse of real black magic. Everett Sloane, as Rita's lame and jealous husband, crawls through the picture as horribly as a spider; and Glenn Anders, as a man who madly plots his own murder, has developed a soundless laugh as chilling as a razor's edge scraped across plate glass. Orson has done a capable job with his brogue, a flashy one with the camera. But not all of his magic works. He makes a blonde out of his onetime...
...taught me how to shoot a sexy dame singing a song and stuff like that." Welles has spent the past six months touring Italy, mostly vacationing. But he tossed off Cagliostro, a film biography of the great 18th Century charlatan, in between an audience with the Pope, an interview with Togliatti, and writing occasional pieces for the New York Post. "I've never seen what I wrote in print," he says. "It was like writing in sand...
...Welles is now at work assembling his quickie film version of Macbeth, which he shot in only 21 days...
...Crusades (Paramount), produced in 1935 by Cecil B. DeMille, has been reissued on two pretexts: that war has come again to the Holy Land; that an Oscar has just come to Loretta Young, the picture's star. Neither excuse is necessary. The film just about attains the DeMillen-nium of screen spectacles and is worth a second look...