Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...envy at the profits, but he would have at least had the comfort of knowing that his version (the one he starred in) was better. Beyond a not-too-great over-all impression and a nostalgic haze, the only scenes that stick in this film are Fay Wray's screen test on the boat heading toward Kong's island and Kong's unveiling in New York before a black tie and monocle society crowd during the Depression. It does indeed best the current version, however, and an evening of applauding and mock sentimentalizing should be in store during this jaunt...
...Girl Friday. Wise-cracks have never flown faster or more furiously across the screen. And these lines are beauts, lifted from the classic (and unendingly resurrected) play, "The Front Page" by Hecht and MacArthur, and adapted here by Charles Lederer. Rosalind Russell shows her talent for comedy better in this one than in any other film she ever did; her Hildy Mason is just what the movie stereotype of the street-wise professional woman with romanticism buried,...breathing, deep down inside should be. And Cary Grant, as the editor who has already gone a romantic round one with this woman...
...setting was the Oval Office, where Carter sat in a pale orange wingback chair, facing two old-fashioned stand-up microphones and a television screen showing the names of his invisible inquisitors. Behind him, the presidential desk was bare, save for a few mementos and Harry Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE plaque...
Puppet Animation. Pixillation, or so the releases promise. At Center Screen in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Friday, Saturday and Sunday...
...historic, satirical and sinister animated works, most of which are undiscovered masterpieces of the genre of pixillation, or single-framing. Beginning with pioneering ventures like Ladislas Starevitch's 1912 Revenge of the Kinemagraphic Cameraman (a silent starring two beetles, a dragonfly and a grasshopper) this fifth program in Center Screen's Animation Series covers chronologically such spoofs as Jiri Trnka's Song of the Prairie, 1949 (a spaghetti Western complete with an operatic cowboy) and concludes with the surrealistic Jabberwocky of Jan Svank-majer, a sinister turn of the screw on a Carrollian child-world of Victorian dolls. Included...