Word: technicolor
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...some deep and basic special anxiety of the species-and the only one created directly for the movies, having no ready roots in literature or folk lore. The crudities, the enigma of the original Kong's expression, are part of that work's strength. The wowing Technicolor virtuosity of the remake reduces the tale's mythic resonances and turns it into a safe PG entertainment. It may be that though the legend of Kong works on something that is perpetually child like in everyone, it was never meant for children...
...parties, abortions and carrot juice squeezers, coffeehouses, Freudian analysts and old young people, everywhere, waiting to be discovered. Mazursky's film is less the personal journey its title suggests than a description of a time and place trapped in its own image. It is a mood piece, soaked in Technicolor's blue, 'fifties light. Like the Dave Brubeck jazz it is scored to, Next Stop emerges super-cool, sophisticated and non-committal...
Director Federico Fellini's movie about the 18th century Italian seducer first ran into trouble last August when thieves broke into Technicolor's vaults and filched three weeks' worth of shooting. Then a strike by the production crew and a case of flu contracted by Star Donald Sutherland caused further costly delays. Claiming that Fellini had run over both his $6 million budget and a Dec. 20 deadline, Producer Alberto Grimaldi last week announced that he was suspending the cast of 170. Fellini called in his attorneys about the matter and offered a one-line review...
...damage is incalculable," said Director Federico Fellini, after learning that color negatives from his current film had disappeared from Technicolor's vaults near Rome. The negatives, from which final prints of the movie had not yet been made, represented Fellini's first three weeks of shooting on Casanova, with Donald Sutherland and Margaret Clementi in leading roles. "There are sets that have been dismantled to make room for other ones, actors who have finished their work and left for heaven knows where," lamented the director. While police began an investigation, Italian reporters tried to estimate the size...
...decided to rerelease the movie nation-wide--with plenty of hype, including umbrella-festooned theater lobbies--and give those people a chance to see the other 97 minutes. MGM would have done better to confine itself to three minutes of Gene Kelly in the puddles. Unveiled in all its technicolor gaudiness, Singin' in the Rain stands revealed as an overblown, badly acted, often tedious extravaganza that almost drowns Kelly's perfect little droplet...