Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unicorn in the Garden (U.P.A.; Columbia) demonstrates, in just about the best seven minutes now showing on any screen, what happens to a man who doesn't let his sleeping wife lie. but dares to wake her with the information that there is a unicorn in the garden-"eating roses." The old girl just rolls over, fixes him with an eye like the hubcap of purgatory, and explains: "The unicorn is a mythical beast." The man goes droopingly downstairs and feeds the unicorn a lily. "The unicorn," he hastens to tell his wife, "ate a lily." "You," she concludes...
Remembering the point, readers who have long treasured James Thurber's cold little classic may rest easy about the first attempt to animate on the screen the characters in Thurber's cartoons. The Unicorn in the Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make...
...Britain's Geoffrey Gorer and France's Jean-Paul Sartre, several still little-known but promising rookies have recently reported that U.S. children are developing prognathy ("The lower jaw is thrust forward as a result of lying for hours on the floor in front of the TV screen, chin in hand"); that, when the air conditioning breaks down anywhere, "New York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against this background of strange visions, Luigi Barzini...
Jutting Conies. Newsman Barzini studied at Columbia in the 19203. worked for U.S. newspapers in the U.S.. is genuinely friendly toward America. He works with a very wide screen, and his camera cuts from Henry Ford to a Los Angeles lonely hearts club, from Ben Franklin to a skyful of paratroopers, sometimes with bewildering speed. There are the inescapable stock characters: the discontented taxi driver, the sharecropper with a washing machine who wonders whether he is really happy, the Hollywood starlet who drinks too much; and they are all forcibly made to stand for big concepts-fear, or uncertainty...
Slaughter and sex are the ruling passions of Fan Fan The Tulip, a merry jibe at the more pretentious forms of historic motion picture. Louis XV wages lordly war across the screen, counting victory cheap if it costs but 10,000 lives. Villians are skewered on swords and hoist by powder kegs until the welkin rings. And amid the din of charging cavalry and ringing welkins, Lina Lollabridgia turns in the finest bit of provocative acting since Jean Harlow enticed Gable into lathering her back in Red Dust...