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...potent Roman Catholic lobby formed the Legion of Decency to rate films. Soon after, Will Hays, the industry's political and moral arbiter, called on Joseph Breen, a prominent Catholic, to enforce a rigorous production code. Studios rushed to sanitize some projects (West got married at the end of Belle of the Nineties) and dump others (MGM had to wait 12 years to film The Postman Always Rings Twice). Moviegoers that summer Sunday may have been shocked by the sudden absence of shocking dialogue and situations. But filmmakers evolved a new "code," one that traded starkness for subtlety. Audiences quickly...
They marched six abreast across the great square like some damask-clad, miter-capped army, the Cardinals in scarlet bringing up the rear. More than 2,600 bishops, the largest such gathering in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, took seats on 330-ft.-long bleachers in St. Peter's Basilica and craned like schoolboys for a view of the farmer's son who had called them here to ... talk. About what? "About everything," one prelate predicted. "And a few things besides...
...nuzzle the Actress statuettes to their respectively slim and ample bosoms. I want to celebrate a night of surprises, with dark horses galloping past favorites toward the finish line on the Kodak Theatre stage: "The Pianist" for Adrien Brody (the first man under 30 to win Best Actor) and Roman Polanski (at 69, the oldest to win Best Director), plus richly deserved prizes to Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" (the first foreign-language film to win for Animated Feature) and Pedro Almod?var's "Talk to Her" (the first foreign language to take Best Original Screenplay since...
...Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting story of a Roman Catholic priest who impregnates an adoring teen-age girl, hit theaters during the throes of last year's clerical sexual abuse scandals. It is now Mexico's biggest home-grown box-office hit ever, as well as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at this Sunday's Academy Awards...
...PIANIST. Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction...