Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only does De Palma send up every known form of rock, from hard to glitter, but just about every other pop style this side of Glenn Miller. He pays homage to such movie masters as Alfred Hitchcock and Raoul Walsh by echoing a couple of their most famous scenes. Like Truffaut, he borrows hoary cinematic devices-the wipe, the iris and the optical montage-only to mix them with currently fashionable gimmicks like the split screen. De Palma's axiom is that in popular culture, today's wow is tomorrow's cliche and the next...
Among the HUP's recent best sellers are: "The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare" by Marvin Spevack, "The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson" by Bernard Bailyn, "Families and Family Therapy" by Salvador Minuchin and "Impeachment" by Raoul Berger. Each sold over 10,000 copies...
...Surprising casualness" (Raoul Berger of Harvard). "Dangerous nonsense" (Gerald Gunther of Stanford). "Disturbingly cavalier" (Paul J. Mishkin of Berkeley...
...getting into, say, The Sea Wolf only to be jerked rudely on to They Died with Their Boots On. Worse, that picture is represented not by its great scene-Custer's farewell to his wife -but by a battle sequence that does not have much meaning without director Raoul Walsh's superb imagery. However, films that depended on snappy cross talk for their best effects-Casablanca and The Big Sleep, for example-survive nicely as snippets of sound. In any case it seems graceless to be anything but grateful for what amounts to a collage education (or reeducation...
...self-consciousness is contradicted by the rigidities of Red River. For the most part, however, the directors are shown as canny and incorrodable professionals, sustained by vigorous memories and egos. Schickel makes no attempt to hide their flaws: Frank Capra often lurches from sentimentality to unabashed bathos; William Wellman, Raoul Walsh and Howard Hawks appear to have been terrors on the set and in their private lives. But whatever their methods, all eight men achieved results that permanently altered the style of world cinema. Those results have never been better analyzed on television...