Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glass to her abdomen in hopes of hearing his baby. The wife is Debbie North, a commercial artist and the sole support of her husband Bruce, a painter of unbought paintings. The people are real, and so is the rest of the cinéma-vérité film that follows their practice sessions at a natural-birth clinic and their visits to in-laws (Mom still wishes Bruce had gone into dentistry). A listener can even hear the chatter of Debbie's teeth as she is driven to the hospital. Finally, with Bruce exhorting...
From the Norths' lying-in, the two-part film shifts somberly to a different sort of hospital: one for advanced-cancer patients. Balancing taste and excruciating intimacy, the camera team now details the last days and thoughts of Albro Pearsall, 52, a Manhattan gold smelter dying of lung cancer...
Flickering Flame. Birth and Death, as the film is titled, this week provided a powerful start for the Public Broadcast Laboratory's second and possibly last season. A $12,5 million, two-year experiment of the Ford Foundation, PBL was founded to prove that public TV, if adequately financed, could light candles of culture and significance amid the darkness of commercial TV. But during its first year, the flame of PBL flickered disappointingly...
...Dwarfs, and a colloquy between a group of concerned college students and a melancholy Walter Lippmann. Most important, the lab exposed a not-so-latent racism in U.S. society. There were bitter confrontations between militant blacks and self-righteous whites, stark views of ghetto living conditions, including one film shot and narrated by Gordon Parks, and cutting satire, such as a Negro-slanted aptitude test (sample question: "How long do you cook chitlins?"), By chance, PBL's camera crews tracked Martin Luther King throughout the last three months of his life; the result was a stunning obituary that last...
...assistant dean at Princeton before going to Washington, Bohen had never worked as a journalist or film maker, but was considered the tough administrator and idea man needed to complement Westin's production experience...