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...eclectic repetoir of classic, foreign and independent films, as well as live performance. The opening night celebration the 1952 Joan Crawford thriller Sudden Fear was followed by films and performances by such local musical acts as Treat Her Right and Roger Miller. Future programming includes such themes as film noir, women directors and the Japanese New Wave...
Simple justice. Is not turning an elegant film noir like The Maltese Falcon into a lurid color riot a travesty? Like putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa...
...progress. There is the second installment of a five-story science-fantasy cycle, The Dark Tower, featuring Roland, the Last Gunslinger, on the track of his grail. Then there is the uncut version of The Stand. Then there are plans to study French in order to finish Livre Noir, a detective story in French, "the language that turns dirt into romance." And there is a project to turn Carrie into a Broadway musical, with choreography by Debbie Allen. Plus an original story for TV, an 875-page screenplay that will run over 14 episodes. "All right...
Scott is a past master of artifice. In Alien (1979) he devised a grungy spaceship through which a ravenous parasite moved and mutated. In Blade Runner (1982) he created a city that existed simultaneously in the 21st century ! and the film noir 1940s. Legend offers more of the hermetic same. Virtually all of the movie's "outdoor" sequences were shot in the caverns of England's Pinewood Studios. The fairy dust that caresses the heroine is borne on wind machines. Most of the actors play their roles (goblins, elves, trolls) inside elaborate masks. The whole idea is to turn image...
Maybe Alan Rudolph should just plunk himself down in front of a video console, electronically colorize some old film noir favorite of his and forget it. Instead, the writer-director keeps trying to revitalize that shadowy, romantic style of the '40s by putting a hip spin on it. This strategy worked pretty well for him two years ago in Choose Me, shot in a surreal light and featuring a script that had the giddy loquacity of a liars' convention...