Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitchout on his own 30-yard line, got a key block, threaded his way through the secondary and put on a blazing burst of speed that left his blowing pursuers behind. The score was tied 13-13. With only five minutes left in the game, Woodson took a screen pass on his own 18-yard line. He stepped delicately around one tackier, then lit out directly across the field. Michigan State's defense was caught flatfooted on the other side of the field as Woodson turned and began speeding for the goal line. A State tackier hurled himself into...
Friendly Persuasion (Allied Artists] is a nice, folksy costume comedy that tries to say something serious about the relation -and the lack of it-between private morals and public life. Before the picture ever reached the screen it was accused of malpracticing what it preaches. Scriptwriter Michael Wilson, who cinemadapted the 1945 bestseller by Jessamyn West, was denied a screen credit for his work because he pleaded the Fifth Amendment in 1951 in refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The studio, a small outfit, was of no mind to risk its principal...
...nimbleness, the knowingness, the irony, the sharp observation of small-town life in all this has hardly been surpassed on the screen. Moreover, there is a sense of the unpredictable flow of life, even though in Vitelloni it is only the sloshing of stale water in a very small pot, that gives to everything Fellini does a kind of tidal vitality. Fellini sees his people straight and whole, most warmly and naturally loves them and hates them, and takes them as they are. It is one measure of Fellini's superiority to most of his neorealist colleagues...
...Fellini's hands, people sometimes seem more important than the screen has made them appear for years; they seem larger, somehow, even the lowliest and most hopelessly lost among them...
Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...