Word: filming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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P.O.V. (PBS, debuting July 18, 10 p.m. on most stations). This summer series -- a collection of independent documentaries, all expressing their makers' "point of view" -- launches its second season with Who Killed Vincent Chin?, an Oscar-nominated film about the 1982 slaying of a young Chinese- American engineer...
...world has undeniably changed since the release of the first James Bond movie,Dr. No, in 1962. That film was made at the height of Cold War tension, at a time when the superpowers came closer than ever before--or ever since--to the brink of nuclear destruction. And Ian Fleming's rugged superspy fit perfectly into that world...
...class is a kind of grass-roots media review board that any pollster worth his clipboard would give a rating point to get in on. Currently approved by the majority: any movie in which heartthrob Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams) removes his shirt. The video of the film Bull Durham, in which Costner takes off more than that, is one of the area's hottest rentals. Television gets its share of attention. Before summer reruns took over the tube, the women found that Moonlighting was funny again, and the wacky comedy of Tracey Ullman acquired a growing following. The women...
...people who worked on this movie are not without a certain sophistication. They know that the heroic, tragic and farcical modes, all of which they briefly lurch toward in the course of the film, are not really appropriate to their story. They are also aware of how rapidly the world has spun since their protagonist was burning pianos and churning up teenage hormones. Accelerated change of that sort produces the kind of broad fundamental irony that moviemakers who take themselves seriously always love. How dumb we were. And so recently. How easy it is to encourage the audience to join...
...Hollywood the black man's burden is to be all things to all people: stoic Sidney Poitier and sassy Eddie Murphy, angelic sitcom kid and fuming rapmaster. Lee's movie bravely tries both approaches. It gives you sweet, then rancid, but without explaining why it turned. He holds the film like a can of beer in a paper bag -- the cool sip of salvation on a blistering day -- until it is revealed as a Molotov cocktail...