Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emphasis is on fi. In NBC's The Man from Atlantis, a fishy survivor from the lost civilization teams up with a comely lady scientist for some underwater heroics. CBS's Logan s Run, a spin-off from the film, zaps into the 24th century. In it a man and woman are on the run from certain death, and each week they seek shelter in a different society...
This month End of the World will come to 200 Southern and Midwestern theaters. The film tells of an earthling scientist who comes upon a band of aliens cleverly disguised as six nuns and a priest. Filmed in three weeks, the picture cost $500,000 (compared with Star Wars'$9.5 million). If the world survives this picture, End Producer Charles Band plans to return by Christmas with another quickie titled Laser Blast...
...potent metaphor. In scene after scene, Cinematographer Ennio Guarnier frames the setting-turn-of-the-century Bologna and Venice-in rich, painterly soft focus, but his colors are so intense that they almost seem to burn the film. Similarly, the leading characters-an eminent if controversial scientist and socialist, his beautiful daughter who is suffocating in a bourgeois marriage, his erratic lawyer-son who is so devoted to his trapped sister that he would kill for her-are creatures of grace and period charm, but their own picturesque passions are so tearfully intense as to sear their souls...
...Deneuve's cruel and boorish husband, he enmeshes his idealistic, freethinking family in an elaborate, tawdry scandal In turn, the forces of Catholic conservatism in Bologna, especially the police and press, are impelled by hysterical fear and hatred of socialism to pillory the entire family. As the old scientist (Fernando Key) muses bitterly: "A man who kills an other man commits a reprehensible act. But a society that kills a man, his family, justice - that's even worse...
...minute or so it might almost be Merv Griffin or the Tonight show. The host is professionally affable, the guests are the usuals: a loathsome child star and a piano player, a pompous research scientist, a frizzy-haired health-food nut. Then comes the perception that something is terribly awry-the piano player is in an iron lung; Fernwood 2 Night, the talk show to end all talk shows, is on and running muck. Something like a televised cross between radio's Bob and Ray and print's Mad Magazine, it is Norman Lear's newest...