Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reflexive knock against The Player is that its satire is too inside. In the opening scene, for instance, the studio executive played by Tim Robbins sits listening to a series of real-life screenwriters pitching plausibly dopey movie ideas -- among them Buck Henry, who co-wrote The Graduate, proposing a ridiculous Graduate sequel. Michael Tolkin, who wrote the screenplay and the 1988 novel on which The Player is based, also appears in the film as a screenwriter. But all the in-jokes are a secondary pleasure, not the essence. Even if you don't know what turnaround means, The Player...
Woody Allen is an artist. He writes, directs and frequently acts. He controls every aspect of the production, from background music to editing. No studio gives a director the kind of freedom Woody Allen readily receives anywhere he works...
...Erin Matthiessen, his former lover; Morris met him when they both danced in the Dean company. "Mark thought for himself." Too often, he thought aloud, arguing with the choreographers, making unwanted suggestions on how he thought they should develop their dances. Finally, in 1980, Morris rented Merce Cunningham's studio for two nights and presented a program of his own works, including O Rangasayee, a stunning 20-minute solo to an Indian raga that marked him as a talent to watch...
...with the Bernard Leach tradition of quiet good taste and honesty in materials that grew out of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. As Edward Lebow points out in his engaging catalog introduction to this show, Price, from his student days in Peter Voulkos' West Coast classes, "devoted much of his studio effort to clearing his throat and going ptooey on 'creative craft' and 'good design...
...these effects are like Lego blocks compared with the task confronting < ILM now: Spielberg's Jurassic Park, from the Michael Crichton best seller about dinosaurs roaming through a modern theme park. The mammoth mechanized beasts being assembled at Stan Winston Studio in Van Nuys, Calif., will be filmed, broken down into computer code and inserted onto the live-action frame to interact with the humans. Spielberg's requirements for absolute movie realism will mean a 21st century marriage between the modelmaking Gepettos in Los Angeles and the video futurists in San Rafael. One ILM animator says the challenge...