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...airy, pleasant and a little flaky. Because it is something of a standard product, it is also rather predictable. When a married bureaucrat (Jean Rochefort) conceives a passion for a flashy Paris model (Anny Duperey), we have no doubt that he is going to bed her in the final reel - after first undergoing a series of ritual humiliations befitting a middle-aged fool who tries to play the swinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flaky Farce | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...working-class people trying to make a decent living and it's damn hard," Newby, who is currently unemployed, said, gesturing towards the non-union projectionist turning on the first reel of Fellini...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Union May Act Against Local Cinema | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...mostly at the Twentieth Century-Fox studio, where final cuts in the film were being made. "There were no director's luncheons at the Brown Derby," says Rademaekers. "Instead, it was 'lunch' at 3 a.m. in a hash house, then back to the studio to follow Reel 12 for the 114th time, with Lucas painstakingly going over the sounds of music, footsteps and explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 30, 1977 | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...society for $70 for the weekend. A couple of the film societies have complained that they have members who could show the film better than the projectionists they must hire. While most of them are well-trained, Dunster House used one who broke a film, left time between reels, and cut the sound for several minues; Mather House used a projectionist who left for a six-pack in the middle of a reel. But at least one society president feels grateful he doesn't have to run the projectors. "Those things are dangerous," Rick Hunt '78 of Adams House said...

Author: By Sarah A. Stahl, | Title: Gone With The Wind | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...Wind is our Iliad, and, taken together, a hundred cowboy movies make up the Odyssey of the Late Show. Hollywood's images have become the myths of the 20th century, and somewhere in the depths of our unconscious are mingled words and pictures from the real and the reel: Abraham Lincoln and Raymond Massey, George Patton and George C. Scott, Fanny Brice and Barbra Streisand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Reel Truth, As Time Goes By | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

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