Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ginger Cookies. What can a poor legendmaker do with a late 20th century woman whose avowed model is Queen Victoria? By way of apology, Lacey theorizes that the sepulchral gloom of blacked-out Windsor Castle during World War II helped turn a "serious child into a serious girl." Certainly nobody...
In the afternoon, the Bavarian sky finally clouded and the light seemed right. Because it was so late, two scenes were shot simultaneously, Nykvist filming from one end of the street and Bergman from the other. "We don't have to even talk any more on the set," Bergman...
The exhibitionist style cloys, because as pure documentary F for Fake has such potential. Welles tracks deHory down in Ibiza, a picturesque Spanish island, where the forger has given up his life of crime for a jolly semi-retirement. (He no longer sells his fakes--Picassos, Modiglianis, Matisses and Van...
MOST BLATANT-AND LONGEST-COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTION: a 90-minute plug masquerading as live coverage of a celebrity jolly-up, which launched NBC's Big Event series. Besides hyping the series, the stars tediously promoted their upcoming films-all, by an odd coincidence, Paramount releases.
Shout at the Devil is certainly silly, and looks something of a shambles be sides, but it is a jolly enough enterprise, bumptiously entertaining in its own feckless way. Marvin overacts outrageously, sometimes lapsing into a full-fledged imitation of W.C. Fields gone native. Parkins is pretty, and Moore deft...