Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gospel According to St. Matthew. A far cry from the Hollywood Bible epics: immediate, made so by Pasolini's simplicity of setting and action, and his effective use of hand-held cameras and non-professional actors. Pasolini preserves the words of the gospel; his Marxism does not show through...
Instead of a blood-and-guts ending, the kind that TV-educated Americans have come to expect from Hollywood, the dispute settled down to a waiting game between the Federal government and the militant members of the American Indian Movement. As the occupation dragged to a close last week, the atmosphere at Wounded Knee had no more excitement than a rerun of "Leave it to Beaver...
...Hollywood has never forgiven TV for taking away most of its audience and its income, and every year it exacts a kind of Montezuma's revenge with perhaps the worst TV special of the season-the Academy Awards. This year's show should satisfy all the movie industry's grievances, past, present and future. If anything went right, the faithful TV cameras did not record...
...looking as if someone had pushed him from the wings, took Heston's place-and immediately ran into trouble with his cue cards. "This isn't my bag, man," he complained to the cameras shortly before Heston, who had been delayed by a flat tire on the Hollywood Freeway, relieved him. And so the night digressed...
...movie opens with a rasping fanfare, a blast from an old record of Hooray for Hollywood. It very neatly sets the tone for this travesty of Raymond Chandler's superb novel about honor and friendship, two subjects among a great many that Robert Altman cannot bring himself to take seriously...