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...seventh day, they caught a movie. When the lights go down at Pope Paul VI Hall on Nov. 26, The Nativity Story will become the first feature film ever to premiere at the Vatican. The creation tale of this movie is, by Hollywood standards, pretty miraculous. Screenwriter Mike Rich told his agent last November that he would like to write a story that many Christians have seen performed every Christmas Eve of their lives--but this time without first-graders playing the wise men. "If I had brought this subject matter into the mainstream studio system four or five years...
...from three-pointers. The Terriers made 10 of 27 long range attempts against the Colonials. In last year’s game, BU made 61.5% of its threes, going 8 for 13 from beyond the arch. Last year, the Crimson had a hard time behind the arc-- it ranked seventh in the Ivy League last year in three-point field goal defense, allowing opponents to shoot 36.8 percent from downtown. Vast improvement was shown against Maine. Going up against a team with several athletic, talented shooters, Harvard forced the Black Bears to miss 15 of their 20 three-point attempts...
...surprised how many film lovers my age tell exactly the same story, like a mass-hallucination tale from some '50s science-fiction epic. And with the same film cuing the conversion. The Seventh Seal sparked a generation of young people to make foreign-language films their urgent research project, their obsession, their religion. Our interest spread to other Bergman films, to other European and Japanese directors and the actors who graced their works. Soon enough, we noticed that many of these hallowed pictures were distributed by one company: Janus Films...
...beginning, Janus Films had two corporate hallmarks. One was great taste in choosing films - or perhaps the company's choice of films shaped the tastes of me and my fellow cinephiles. The other was a sprightly and pliable imagination in showcasing movies. The success Janus had with The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries helped it buy the rights to more than a dozen older and newer Bergman films. But instead of releasing them all separately, Janus packaged the lot in a Bergman retrospective. Theaters would book the program for a two- or three-week run, showing double features...
...next 50 years will be? Nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure that we won't see them in theaters like the Brattle or the 55th Street Playhouse, let alone your 24-screen Googolplex. The kids of the future, knocked for a loop by their own, 21st century Seventh Seal, will see it on a TV or computer screen...