Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Purple Rose did not come to Allen as a nostalgic reverie. "About 14 months ago it hit me--in one flash--that a guy, an actor, could come off the screen and involve himself in the real world. Then I started having doubts. It wasn't until I realized that, my God, if he came off the screen, there would be repercussions on the actual actor in Hollywood. And the subject met the criteria for a film worth working on: it could be amusing, touching, interesting to watch, and there was also the proper potential for visuals...
...drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals. Instead of thumbing through stacks of 3-by-5 cards in search of a book, readers will now type a title or topic on a keyboard and watch the pertinent information flash onto a screen before them...
...punch line. The lovers repose in bed, a turnstile fan lazing above them, Venetian blinds notching shadows on their backs, and outside their window looms the detective. For a moment the low growl of Marty's backyard incinerator can be heard, and then the screen whitens in an atomic flash, as if the lovers had been cremated. It is the flash of the detective's camera...
Blood Simple has plenty of flash--the sort of cinema virtuosity that can be overpraised precisely because it is so difficult to describe. Just as easily, the movie can be underrated as a film-school exercise, with visual strategies reminiscent of both Terrence Malick and Sergio Leone, and a grisly climax that borrows from Psycho and Ministry of Fear. But Blood Simple infiltrates the central nervous system even as it opens the cultist's sharp eye. Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint...
...Conference championship game, strafing Pittsburgh 45-28, Marino's final interview was with former Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw near midfield of the Orange Bowl at dusk. Passing quarterbacks passing in the twilight: a fairly irresistible image. Even when Marino's gums are not packed with tobacco, there is a flash of boy Bradshaw. "Just as nicely unpolished," says Rocky Bleier, another retiree, "the same weight problem, the same quick release, the same compulsion to throw into the coverages." Police dogs were escorting Marino to his white Corvette in the parking lot. "What a ride he's on," murmured Bradshaw, whose...