Word: filming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition," "The Well-Dressed 18th Century Man," "Ceramic Treasures from Boston's Collections Past and Present," "The Sublime and the Beautiful: Images of Women in American Sculpture," "A Tour of the British Isles" and through Aug. 12, "The 18th Century in France: Paintings and Furniture." Film special: Aug. 7 at 7 p.m., "A Nous la Liberte," musical satire on mechanization. Nonmembers $2; members $1.50; no museum admission charge...
There are some obscure places in Boston where a modest fee can buy an evening of bold, seldom offered film experience. The White Knuckles Cinema series, presented this summer by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, is screened in an improvised movie theater three elevator flights atop a former Boston fire station, and it seats only about 150 people. But for $2.50, the ICA offers to the public films which are generally excellent but virtually never seen anywhere else...
Fuller, whose first film in five years is due in December (a war movie called The Big Red One) has a keyed-up, pulp-writer's sense of poetry, an incredibly imaginative and powerful manipulation of cutting rhythms and camera movement--and a wide streak of sadism. His films have been highly influential to Godard, among others, whose praise and tribute has lifted Fuller to a sort of cult status. Shock Corridor--starring no one you've ever heard of before--concerns a journalist who, in hopes of earning a Pulitzer prize, disguises himself as a patient in an insane...
Many directors, of course, do not have the right of final cut, or editing, that most crucial of Hollywood privileges. If it belongs to the producer or the studio head, the director is outclimaxed. William Wyler, for example, directed Wuthering Heights for Samuel Goldwyn in 1939, closing the film with both main characters, Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and Catherine (Merle Oberon), dead. Such a somber ending greatly disturbed Goldwyn, and he asked Wyler to insert a brief clip of the two lovers in heaven. The director firmly refused. Thus it was a stunned Wyler who attended the premiere and watched Heathcliff...
...game as played by directors, producers and studios is neither good nor bad; as Epstein observes, previewing and then fixing a film is "like taking a play out of town for a tryout." All's well that ends well as long as the picture does well at the box office. Epstein, for one, boasts that he would rewrite Shakespeare: "I think the worst ending in the world is Hamlet. There is too much blood. There should have been a few less corpses." It looks as if Coppola has been won over to that less-is-more outlook...