Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leigh has been "devising" films, as he puts it, for 25 years, since the aptly titled Bleak Moments. Unable to secure studio financing, he made films for the BBC and Channel 4, where he carved out his own dramatic genre: working-class Brits scraping each other's skin with their verbal aggressions. Since the late '80s he has worked on the big screen. Some of his films (High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, Naked) have earned him critics' awards and a small, passionate U.S. following. He has received museum retrospectives and is the subject of Michael Coveney's comprehensive, reverent biography...
These self-described "experimental noise artists" will be modulating the various sounds with the surge machine and various CD players in the electronic studio in Paine Hall. They are looking for students who are interested in experimental noise to join them: "There are just a lot of amazing sounds out there that we just ignore...
...students are probably not familiar with these shows, as screenings seem to be rare and hard to catch. In addition, none of them have a particularly large following or super reputation. But, financial manager Alexander Gildengers '97 explains, "These shows will get better. We just got a new studio and new digital video cameras which will improve the image quality of all of the shows...
...Sony, it now appears that just talking to the studio can damage a career. Canton will not be replaced for now (two deputies will share his duties for the time being). But most industry executives believe Sony must do more to fix its studio than merely shuffle executives. After a profligate run that astonished Hollywood, Sony acknowledged in 1994 that it had lost more than $3 billion on its filmed-entertainment operations since it bought Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola...
Sony says the studio is profitable now, and the past couple of years have brought a few successes, such as Bad Boys and Jumanji. But the misses far outnumbered the hits, and the studio has never had a major blockbuster. "There have to be big strains," says industry analyst Hal Vogel. "The whole '96 schedule really didn't work very well--and this is after years of trying. Where are they? They're not anywhere...