Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Balls," Samuel Fuller snarled as he explained the problems of today's movie industry, "It takes balls to make a good film." The octogenarian Hollywood legend was speaking in the basement of Sever Hall as part of the Avignon/Cambridge '93 film workshop. Though the panel included three other directors and two actors, Fuller managed to dominate the discussion in his characteristically brash yet lovable style...
...honorary president of The French-American Film Workshop, Fuller opened the ceremonies with a screening at the Brattle Theatre of his controversial film "White Dog" (1982), about a dog trained to attack Black people (1982). Following the screening, Fuller engaged in a question and answer session with the audience...
...directors participated in the workshop; from the U.S.: Budd Boetticher, Robert Gardner, Fuller, Ross McElwee, and Alexandre Rockwell. From France: Jean-Charles Tacchella, and Val*rie Stroh. The panelists were selected to represent both young, independent filmmakers, and more established directors from the two countries...
...most talked-up events was a luncheon discussion with Fuller and Boetticher, both survivors of the so-called "Golden Age of Hollywood." The two told anecdotes about what they called the "the rough and tumble school" of movie-making. Boetticher described his most difficult project, his documentary on Carlos Arruza, a Mexican bullfighter. The picture took ten years to make, during which time his crew was nearly killed, his subject died, his wife left him and he was imprisoned in a Mexican mental institution...
...realities are that we are serving more people with greater need with less money," says Iona Smith Nze, the executive director of the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, a community agency which serves Area Four...