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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slap of a clapper board indicates the start of a "take," and of this film. Few will note that the names on the slate are fictitious, not those of Reisz and his cinematographer Freddie Francis; but it is the first hint of the life-to-be outside the walls of the period story. The audience will learn soon and often enough: 14 times, the "present" film-within-the-film will give way to the "past" film-within-the-film-within-the-film. Inside the deepest box it is 1867, and Charles Smithson is again living out his perplexed obsession with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Acting Becomes Alchemy | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...many foreign films. As Katerina's flashes of girlishness become more precious, more subdued, and more rare, one slowly feels the complexity of maturity with all it's dreadful compromises. It is not until the last fortyfive minutes or so that Menshov even bothers to give you a hint that such naivete might be fulfilled. It will come, of course, embodied in a lover who can be one with all the personas Katerina has created--a knowing idealist, a lover and an admirer of her work. And, impossibly, he does come. His name is Gosha (Alexei Batalov...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Filmpolitik | 8/11/1981 | See Source »

...Hint: connect the centers of the circles to form a triangle, which turns out to be a similarly aligned shrunken (or homothetic, as mathematicians say) version of the original triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High-IQ Battle for the Gold | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...sensibilities he made so popular. In some respects, it's not nearly as interesting as Hammett's fiction, since Hammett's Ops have more to say about the state of things in the urban steamvat than any academic ever will. Still, it's worth reading if only for a hint at how right Gertrude Stein was As he said in an early story...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Continental Op | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...quiet man with a hint of gray around the temples, Quraishi is somewhat aloof from the press. When asked for an interview, he sometimes demands written questions in advance. If he dislikes what he is being asked, he substitutes his own questions and pens a response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squirreling Away $100 Billion | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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