Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face fills the screen, shot in extreme closeup. We see eyes, a nose, a mouth; not enough, for the moment, to decide age or sex. The eyes are wide open, perhaps in wonder, perhaps in horror. Now we see the fingers of a second person palpating the flesh of this face, neither gently nor roughly, folding back the upper lip to examine the teeth; turning the head to inspect the lobe of an ear. The camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white...
...large as Hollywood's biggest sound stage, Spielberg "was forever screwing up schedules like a whirlwind," says Melinda Dillon, the film's female lead, recalling the strain. "He worked all night, every night?catching a few hours' sleep when he could. He had his Winnebago trailer set up to screen films, and he was always running 2001, and when he got tired of that, he would run cartoons." null Truffaut, the French director whom Spielberg persuaded to act in the film, was also dazzled by Spielberg's stamina?though he was somewhat baffled by the movie itself. "I never really...
This collection does not merely ride the current wave of interest in women's films. Center Screen has maintained its quality control in this presentation of highly professional explorations. It is one of the best anthologies of women's films around...
...seems somehow anachronous to speak in one breath of these four contemporary women's films and in the next about "In the Land of the War Canoes," but it is actually quite in line with Center Screen's arrempt to offer films to more varied audiences. "Canoes" made by Edward S. Curtis in 1914, is the first course in Center Screen's independent feature film spread. It was lost for years and has never been shown in Boston before...
George Stoney's "You are on Indian Land" (1969, 39 minutes) will be shown along with "Canoes." In combining the women's portraits, all done since 1976, and Stoney's politically conscious work with Curtis' cultural fruit, Center Screen is to be congratulated for its thoughtful presentation of art and politics...