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...third husband, aspiring Director Dennis Berry, 29, live in bourgeois comfort on Paris' Left Bank patronizing young film makers and actors. One of them, Jean-François Ferriol, "feels he is a reincarnation of Billy the Kid," said Jean, who thereupon sat down and wrote a two-reeler called Ballad for the Kid. The script calls for an encounter between Billy, played by Ferriol, and a Hollywood star from the '30s, played by Jean. "When it is shown," said Director Seberg, "I would like to say to the audience, 'Let me invite you into a little...
...decade or so. The result was a suspension not unlike the average salad dressing: it stayed together only when shaken frequently. The corps of boys and girls-drawn from both the Jeffrey and Tharp companies-did its best, wiggling and jerking in ways that sometimes recalled the old one-reeler days. But the result was too much of a campy, flippant "in" joke...
...entire frontier. On the trek, it demonstrates inconsistencies and errata. For months audiences will be talking about them. It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic. Blood brother to the 1903 one-reeler, The Great Train Robbery, Little Big Man is the new western to begin all westerns...
...film proves that students can shoot a good hour-long, black and white, one-reeler and can shoot one with relatively little expense. The lighting is used effectively throughout the film and is especially impressive in the day-to-night transitions. The angles used are carefully thought out and yet are not so artsy that they intrude upon the viewer's appreciation of the film. This taste for successful angles is coupled with a consistent awareness of composition. Attention to composition is especially apparent in shots of groups of two and three people...
...Twiddle. The tributes, though, keep growing. Later this month, the L. & H. lore will be further enriched by the publication of The Films of Laurel and Hardy* by William Everson. Incisive, objective and generously illustrated, the book traces the development of the team from their first silent two-reeler, Putting Pants on Philip (1927)-a fast-paced trifle with elements of homosexual humor-through their hilarious, Oscar-winning The Music Box (1932), to the sad, tired, misconceived mishmash, Atoll K (1952). In all, the dim-witted duo made 90 films as a team, immortalizing such mannerisms as Ollie...