Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STUDENT FILMS are getting better, a little better all the time. A twenty-seven minute student film used to mean nothing but nine times as many Universal Truths as a three minute student film. Novice filmmakers have always tended to overreach themselves. Josh Waletzky and his cohorts did not, and the result is a film which makes one point rather well, instead of running after every truism which pops...
Perhaps it's unfortunate that Waletzky chose social work for his heroine's commitment. This setting enables us to view a nice variety of amateur actors--wrinkled faces against decaying plaster--but leads to a misplaced emphasis. We spend almost the first half of the film watching the situation (rent-strike) rather than the girl who is the film's subject...
...shorts that are shown in French movie theaters. "U.S. TV commercials are ahead of us by 20 years as far as techniques and methods are concerned," says Eric Lipmann, a top Publicis adman. "From a creative, artistic point of view, though, we are equals. Besides, we can make our films far more cheaply." Primarily because of lower wages, the cost of producing a minute of advertising film runs $5,000 to $10,000 v. at least...
...tradition of O'Casey and O'Neill, Playwright Frank Gilroy explored his own origins in the bleak, painfully honest drama, The Subject Was Roses. This highly successful film version shows why it was both a popular and a critical success on Broadway and why it went on to win the 1965 Pulitzer Prize. Though Gilroy's craftsmanship is maladroit, he has a musician's ear for the lilt and scrape of Irish-American dialogue, and an unblinking eye that sees his characters whole, in the light of common...
...that matter, John Cunningham, playing the young intellectual who hires Zorba to run the mine he has inherited, does little to suggest that he is Greek (which in this version, unlike the film, he is). But like Miss Karnilova, he compensates handily. As Niko, the man Zorba teaches how to live, Cunningham works hard to make his characterization more than the dull stiff it easily could be. He is, of course, helped out by the writing. Joseph Stein, the author of the show's book, establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view...