Word: filming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Italian Cinemaestro Roberto Rossellini announced that he would get to work soon on a film portraying the life of St. Francis of Assisi (to be shot, of course, in the mountain town of Assisi). He will get artistic advice, but no performance, from his great & good friend, Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman...
...Other Way." Shirley told the news according to the strict pressagent-approved code of prominent film personalities: she telephoned Hearst's Louella Parsons, in whose syndicated column Hollywood's private lives pass regularly into the public domain. "Oh, it's not sudden," said Shirley (as related by Louella). "I've been in Palm Springs for six days trying to think out the best thing to do. I didn't want to break up my home and my marriage, but there's no other way. I don't want to hurt John. I want...
Soon after, the film switches from black-and-white to technicolor and becomes extremely exciting. Most of this second half of "Task Force" consists of actual battle scenes filmed by the Navy; they are reminiscent of the wartime "Fighting Lady." the scenes which show a busy combat formation center deep inside the carrier are intensely interesting, and the views of the carrier deck, jammed from side to side with blazing aircraft against a backdrop of explosions and tracers in the deep blue sky, are unforgettable. Cooper and the other actors are skilfully blended into these newsreels between flashes of exploding...
...villain of the piece, a Navy-hating senator, remarks that the burning and sinking of several carriers at the Coral Sea and Midway is not an argument for more carriers. As it happens, the most striking parts of this film show our carriers being severely damaged. The argument of the movie's admirals is that they intend to carry the war to the Japanese homeland; this never happens in the film, and in the actual war the Army Air Forces did some bombing too. If the movie settles the interservice conflict for you, there is a recruiting van full...
...Esquire, opposite Symphony Hall, offers Laurence Oliver's fine production, "Henry V" at special student rates. The Majestic, on Tremont Street just below the Common, is featuring Somerset Maugham's Quartet. Now in its sixth week, the film improves with...