Word: hurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pool in full fig. Since that day, he has splashed about so energetically in the cinema swim that now he is established beyond question as one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, as a director who ranks with George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank), William Wyler (Ben Hur) and Fred Zinneman (A Nun's Story) in the Big Four, and as a witsnapper, fathead-shrinker, Sunset Boulevardier and allround character who has achieved notoriety not often rivaled in movieland...
...surely, plans and almost always manages to shoot three minutes of finished film every day. He runs four rehearsals for each scene, shoots three takes (as against dozens sometimes done in Hollywood), uses up about 20,000 feet of film for a 7,000-foot picture. (For Ben-Hur, which ran 19,000 feet, Hollywood's William Wyler exposed 1,250,000 feet of celluloid.) When a picture is finished. Bergman cuts it ruthlessly, taking his motto from William Faulkner: "Kill all your darlings!" When they are all dead, Bergman collapses in a savage depression that he cannot shake...
...Hur. Hollywood's $15 million behemoth achieves a rare distinction: a super spectacle that lives up to its adjectives...
...Hur. One of the biggest bestsellers in U.S. history turned into the most expensive ($15 million) movie ever made-and worth every penny...
...Hur...