Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE Devi (1960). Indian Film Maker Satyajit Ray, best known for The Apu Trilogy, directs the story of a devout Indian whose religious fantasies lead to domestic tragedy...
FUNNY GIRL. Barbra Streisand comes on strong in a musical biography of Fanny Brice. The film will appeal mainly to those who feel that the leading lady can do no wrong...
...bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...
...Mittyesque account of his preseason tryout with the Detroit Lions' football team. Now comes an instant replay of Plimpton's adventure, presumably aimed at the millions of armchair quarterbacks who spend every Sunday afternoon in the fall glued to the pro games on TV. As a film, unfortunately, Paper Lion has all the interest of a five-yard penalty; it sadly lacks both the charm and sensitivity of the original...
...first of the film's difficulties is that it seems to be twice removed from reality. Plimpton's sly, unobtrusive narration allowed the reader to feel for himself the manifold agonies of the professional athlete: the pain of learning how to merge head with helmet, the humiliation of fumbling a handoff, the confusion of trying to study a playbook crammed with inscrutable diagrams. The movie gives Alan Alda the doubly difficult task of playing the role of Plimpton the sophisticated writer who is playing the role of Plimpton the ten-thumbed quarterback. Alda looks enough like George...