Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fantastic was Hollywood's word for it. A 34-year-old ex-film cutter and a 37-year-old ex-pressagent, with a total capital of $25,000, brashly announced last year that they were going to make a million-dollar A movie...
While it was meritorious from the standpoint of authenticity for Mr. Rank to have much of the film photographed in proper pre-Mazdaian darkness, it becomes, after a while, a tiresome puzzle even to identify the various members of the large and distinguished cast, many of whom possess faces of singular peculiarity. The scenario is not easy to follow, either. This is because the numerous sub-plots have not been integrated and are told in quick episodic fashion which is further aggravated by the slashing of whole scenes from the American version. Film continuity, while not always a prescribed virtue...
Farrebique. A year on a French farm translated into film poetry; without professional actors (TiME, March...
...Italy has the heaviest schedule: Columbia plans to make four more opera adaptations there (next: Faust), Edward Small is completing Cagliostro, 20th Century-Fox will film Prince of Foxes...
...rush to get out of Hollywood? There are three reasons: 1) moviegoers (and good moviemakers) are showing revived interest in films shot in real settings; 2) labor and production costs fall off sharply outside the U.S. (some German extras work for as little as two cigarettes a day); 3) in Britain and on the Continent, one of the best ways for U.S. film companies to use their blocked dollar earnings is to shoot movies there, then ship them back to the U.S. for release...