Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER WATKINS made a film a few years ago called The War Game, about what happens when a nuclear bomb is dropped on England. Watkins wanted to create something real for his audience that they had never experienced before. It was a blatantly anti-war film: if only people could realize how horrible even "tactical" nuclear weapons can be, then even talking about them would be obscene, building them unthinkable. To make the film as shocking as possible, Watkins decided to make it look like a television documentary. An off-camera interviewer is asking radiation victims, "Well...
...technique that Watkins used can be called phony cinema verite. Cinema verite is the filming of something normal, spontaneous, not interfered with by a director. Watkins wanted his film to look like that, even though, of course, it was not that. Orson Welles used this same technique in the opening newsreel sequence of Citizen Kane...
...screen, are hardly suitable for TV's cramped picture. "A long shot," he explained, "diminishes the power of what is being said." The many full-face shots build an air of intimacy between actor and audience that is especially suitable for the TV screen (though the film was also released in London last week as a feature movie). "For the first time," says Paul Rogers, who plays Bottom in a blustering, John Bullish vein, "a Shakespearean movie has been made that doesn't sacrifice the poet." The flowing iambics carry the play forward on the swells and lulls...
...arrangement. The sponsor, Xerox, is inserting only two commercials into the 2½-hour play. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which Hall helped turn into Britain's most distinguished repertory company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together on an austere, black-and-white film of King Lear. On Sunday night alone, Hall estimates, the TV audience for A Midsummer Night's Dream will be large enough...
...still decks himself out with kazoo, tambourine and drum for his concert dates, and operates with all the style that nearly $4,000 a week allows. Next week Partridge will take all his gear along to the U.S. to promote the new Tom Courtenay film Otley, in which he sings the song Homeless Bones on the sound track. Unless his fortunes ebb, his busking days are over. "It became too embarrassing," he says. After the success of Rosie, people started recognizing him as a celebrity. But instead of dropping less in his hat, they gave more. He still does...