Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James Bond films--the first of which, Dr. No, premiered in 1962--were well-suited to the Cold War's ideological fervor. It must have been great fun to watch Bond outwit and outclass hapless Commies. World is the third Bond film since the end of the Cold War and, while its Russophobia is still pronounced, the conflict has lost most of its prior urgency. Avarice and vainglory have replaced zealous patriotism as the cardinal passions of Bond's adversaries...
World seems more explicit than its predecessors; even James Bond seems to be slouching toward Gommorrah. Granted, Bond has never been a poster boy for family values, but his latest film makes his womanizing less palatable by making it more visible...
Despite its minor flaws, however, World is a fine film. With any luck, it will ensure that another generation of young men are educated in the Bond tradition--sans Cold War, sans original plots, sans homely women, sans everything...
Kennedy, a documentary filmmaker, paints a picture of grinding rural poverty in her latest film, "American Hollow," which she presented last night at the ARCO Forum...
...film follows a year in the life of the impoverished Bowling family of Appalachia...