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...Shorts go far: The competition to get a short film into Sundance is fierce and the quality of the movies that make it into the festival is high. Usually outshone by the feature competitions, shorts got to screen to wider audiences this year because anybody who couldn't make the trek to Park City - or score tickets once they got there - could download nearly half of Sundance's 71 competing shorts at Apple's iTunes Store for just $1.99 a piece. Films for sale include the German motorcycling documentary Motodrom and High Falls, a relationship drama starring real-life couple...
Soviet television viewers who watched the news one night last month glimpsed something extraordinary. There, on the screen, appeared scenes of a drug bust in Moscow, complete with pictures of needles and an unidentified white powder. While the camera showed police rushing into an apartment and arresting its occupants, an announcer explained how the suspects had tried to hide the goods, but to no avail...
...view. Alas, many of those celluloid epics have long since been turned into banjo picks, but the artwork survives in Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena (Abrams; 64 pages; $14.95). Here the famous and the forgotten are captured in the forceful style of art deco. Once upon a screen, these vamps, clowns and pirates romanced in a world of black and white. But outside the theater, Madalena made them leap from the walls in vibrant hues. This is one kind of movie colorizing that deserves sustained applause...
...came to the U.S. with Pender's company and decided to stay on. He failed his first screen test, then got a contract, his "nom de screen" and not much more from Paramount, where he made nearly a quarter of his films and no strong impression. He was noticed opposite Mae West and Marlene Dietrich, but it was in 1936, on a loan-out for an RKO flop, Sylvia Scarlett, that he finally "felt the ground under his feet," as George Cukor, the film's director, would put it. He played a type he had known in his past...
This last is what people came to know best in recent years. It was the logical extension of his screen character as he had finally refined it, a healthy spirit who kept his troubles and even his memories to himself. Grant quit films in 1966 after Walk, Don 't Run, a relative failure. After that, the public saw only the odd, tastefully tantalizing glimpse of a man minding his own cheerful-seeming business, playing a graceful front man for Fabergé cosmetics, doting on his fifth wife, Barbara, and his daughter Jennifer, 20, by his marriage to Actress Dyan Cannon...