Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control are Kaplan and Miss Archer. Kaplan's Wong has a strongly Yiddish flavor, much like Sholom Alcichem's dairyman Tevye before Broadway got to him. But the resemblance--the good humor in despair, the pleading with the marvelously impotent gods, the befuddled good intentions--is in Brecht's script as well as Kaplan's portrayal. Miss Archer has warmth, a versatile vocal range, the ability to switch swiftly between the two parts she must play, and good legs...
More Harm. Still, New Wave Director Jacques Rivette knew that getting La Religieuse as a film past the heavy-handed censors of the Gaullist republic would require some fancy cutwork. He took the unusual precaution of submitting his script to the censors in advance-and had to do it three times before getting a version approved for shooting. While the cameras were still rolling, conservative Catholic spokesmen started complaining, eventually mustered over 200,000 letters of protest to the government, many of them from nuns who felt that the film would do irreparable harm to the image of the modern...
...funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie, they think it's a prediction." In many ways, his message is best conveyed by his pages of elaborate, cursive script, in which the occasional images are understandable while the words are illegible. "Words are like vitamin pills," he explains. "We swallow them and think we have got something valuable inside us. But we don't. When we look at a drawing, we must hunt and invent our own meaning...
...contradiction in terms: a truly faithful Biblical film made by a Communist, Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who employs only nonprofessional actors and uses a script based entirely on Holy Writ...
...this month, arrived in Manhattan under the proud chaperonage of her parents-though a photographer did manage to ascertain that the kid has lovely legs. In fact, she is such a family concern that for her latest picture, the Upcoming Gypsy Girl, Mother Mary Bell Mills wrote the script, Father John Mills directed and Daughter Hayley acted as a 17-year-old who falls in love with a gypsy. "This silly thing about age," mused Father John. "One day she looks twelve, the next...