Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife of the Persian King Xerxes, learns of a plot to kill all the Jews in the kingdom, she has a decision to make: To try to save her people, should she risk her life by revealing to the king that she is a Jewess? Or should she remain silent, deny her faith and preserve her wifely prestige and power? After much soul searching, Esther chooses faith...
...lulled by their rhythms, by the catch, draw, release of their oars, by the sight of eight bodies moving as one. But if the viewer turns her head away for just a moment, the boat vanishes, whooshed out of sight up the Tennessee River by the silent power that is the Eight. And that is nothing compared with the display of force they plan for July. "I think we're ready to inflict ourselves on everyone else," says Betsy McCagg. "We're racers, so that's what we want...
...opportunity to examine American cultural history from the 1930s to the 1970s--the life of the left and of the theater, which were often related. The trouble is that Mellen's interest in that fascinating world is only perfunctory, and though she does a conscientious job with the silent, depressive Hammett, she is almost obsessed by the scheming Hellman, and her portrait is grimly negative...
...movies' most dazzling smile shines today, in a set of 10 features (all of Fairbanks' silent films from the 1920s) and two beguiling early featurettes that Kino video is releasing this week. The films, digitally remastered from archive prints, look beautiful in their pearly black-and-white tones--as does The Black Pirate (1926) in its surprisingly sumptuous two-strip Technicolor. The videos offer a reminder that Fairbanks was not just a star of young Hollywood; he was among its most ambitious producers. And he made some marvelous entertainments. The Mollycoddle, The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers...
...Some silent stars, like Buster Keaton, swam outside the Hollywood mainstream. Fairbanks, though, was Hollywood--in his itch for control (he produced his films and wrote most of them), in his loving to be loved, in his taste for pricey grandeur. He ordered the biggest sets (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood), the highest budgets (The Thief of Bagdad), the first epic film shot wholly in Technicolor (The Black Pirate). At times this largeness slowed the films' pace; you wait an hour for the stunts and the fun to kick...