Word: magically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next event was not in Billy Cleary's book of magic, however, but belonged to the visitors and one George Corneil. With little more than 10 minutes to go and Harvard in control but behind, Corneil picked up the puck out of a group of players behind the Crimson net and flashed in front, sneaking the disk between the post and the pad of a surprised Brian Petrovek. The rally was officially extinguished...
Some will take the narrator's wry self-reading at face value and ignore him for writers who practice legerdemain less self-consciously. Yet Calvino's specialability is to perform magic by ex posing it. At first, the patent artifice of The Castle of Crossed Destinies demands disbelief. By the end, an odd conviction displaces skepticism: maybe life really is all in the cards...
ANYONE WHO THINKS that Tom and Jerry and the Road Runner represent the supreme achievements of the animator's art should pay a visit to Off-the-Wall's Second Annual Magic Movies Festival of Animation and see what sophisticated fun creative adults can have with kid's stuff...
...other short subjects by women filmmakers are included on the Magic Movies bill. All in a Woman's Day by Jessica Sphon and Amateur Night by Thalia Goldman both strike unfortunate and harsh notes in a program characterized otherwise by cool sophistication and robust humor. Spohn at least handles her satire of women as sex objects with a deft control of her visual material, a collage of advertising images and photographs. But the stress on sadism and bodily functions is insistently strident. Goldman, an Israeli living in London, succeeds only in making her audience uncomfortable with a sketch that involves...
...embarassment of riches offered by the Magic Movies series threatens to overwhelm the viewer at times. A dozen shorts in quick succession results in so many visual images that they tend to blur together by the end of the show. An intermission which breaks the program into two halves helps somewhat and the atmosphere at the Off-the-Wall theater (which is also a coffee house and photo gallery) is low-keyed and convivial. Until short subjects become a regular part of movie theater programming, Off-the-Wall's approach is the most rewarding, if exhausting, way to see these...