Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware of the magical power of the image to convey an absolute truth, move toward dramatic metaphor in subject and theme, in order to convey ideas that will affect us, living in the one reality film cannot reproduce. The meaning of great film exists ultimately not in the script mechanics but in the treatment of script mechanics by distinct camerawork and editing. All worthwhile analysis of film, however literary in appearance, must hinge on our own interpretation of already interpretive images. But, children of media, inured to psychedelia and fearful of "verbalization," we must in tackling the narrative film understand...
...beautiful as a nightblooming cereus, French Film Star Catherine Deneuve, 24, was over from Paris for three weeks of filming on The April Fools, a romantic comedy about two sufferers of mal de mariage. And pity the folks dying to show her the town. What with costumers, hairdressers, script girls and the rest, it was almost a week before Socialites Heidi Vanderbilt and Cathy Macauley could crash through with a bash in her honor...
...oversights. Somebody forgot to put life jackets in the neatly stenciled "life jeiket" containers under each seat. Other regulations were stretched in the happy excitement. As the plane whizzed toward Greenland, some passengers were invited up to the roomy cockpit, which looked familiar except for the Cyrillic script on the dials, and allowed to take pictures (which is forbidden over Russia proper...
...Paris Burning?, make prime melodrama out of El Cordobés' story, and they are frequently informative about the brutal, corrupt realities beneath bullfighting's cloak of romanticism. But the problem with their cinematic technique is that while it requires only a grainy black-and-white script, they give it a glossy, Technicolor treatment. Every irony is underlined, every climax hammered home, every scene overstuffed with authentic touches from their well-stocked notebooks. The result, paradoxically, is that their finished product is rarely as vivid and compelling as their raw material must have been...
...prostate. In February he went through an emergency appendectomy, at the same time contracting a case of pneumonia. But now Sir Laurence Olivier is at work on his second picture this year, the film version of Strindberg's macabre Dance of Death. All went well until the script called for him to launch into an energetic dance. Suddenly in midflight, he reeled back against a piece of furniture. Just a passing dizzy spell, said Olivier, and within 15 minutes he was back on the boards, cheerfully zipping through the dance, insisting, "I've never felt better...