Word: filming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly not Hollywood, which was beginning the greatest year of its Golden Age. In fact, it was to be the most memorable twelve months in the history of the American cinema. There was Gone With the Wind, of course, whose production attracted more intense public curiosity than any other film ever made. When Vivien Leigh -- beautiful, talented, but indisputably English -- was cast in the role of the Old South's own Scarlett O'Hara, thousands of Americans reacted with patriotic fury, as if the Redcoats had burned Washington again. "Why not cast Chiang Kai-shek and change the part...
Ciuleandra, directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, is based on a popular Romanian novel and depicts a crime of passion. It shows tonight at 9:00 p.m. and Sunday at 4:00 p.m. In it, a woman in the mid-1920s is killed by her husband and drama ensues. The film is shot in neo-expressionistic shadows and icy blues and the action unfolds in flashbacks, climaxing horrifically in the present...
...Clouds, by Alexandru Tatos, uses flashbacks to reveal a plot involving a World War I lieutenant, whose combat experience and disfigurement cause his descent into depravity and madness. Tatos is on the vanguard of Romanian cinema and his photography and plot manipulation reveal the forefront of Romanian New Wave film...
...last film in the series, The Old Maid is directed by Servan Marinescu and cinematography is by Vlad Paunescu. The drama unfolds against a backdrop of growing worker unrest prior to the economic crisis in Romania in 1933. The plot centers around the isolation and loneliness of a dressmaker in Bucharest. The Old Maid shows Sunday night...
...plan hoped to counteract the damaging laissez-faire legacy of the 1960s. A Harvard curriculum liberated by a decade of student unrest--following a trend that had swept colleges from coast to coast--had become by the mid-1970s incoherent and "soft", offering courses such as "the aesthetics of film comedy" and "the civilization of continental and island Portugal" to fulfill humanities requirements, according to a contemporary article in the Saturday Review...