Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News of the violence inflamed passions in Yerevan, where residents are still furious over Moscow's refusal last July to grant their petition to allow Armenia to annex Nagorno-Karabakh. Yerevan workers declared a city-wide strike, and thousands of protesters surged into Theater Square to chant "Sessiya! Sessiya!" (session) -- a call for the Armenian legislature to hold an emergency meeting to take up the annexation issue. Gone were the posters of Gorbachev that crowds carried earlier this year. "Things are different now," a protester said. Several demonstrators tore up their Communist Party cards...
ACCORDING to Murphy, opening night for the Spanish film showcase was a success. Roman Gubern, a Spanish critic, introduced the first film, Juan Antonia Bardem's Death of a Cyclist, to an almost sold-out theater. This 1955 Spanish classic, like the others in the festival, displayed subtitles...
...then, could the blend of films and artifacts not find a home in the country that made them famous? After nearly three decades of community agitation, the Hollywood Museum is still only the promise of an empty lot next to Mann's Chinese Theater. The stars' footprints would have to lead east. Few guessed that they would lead to a working-class neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., just a short subway ride from Manhattan...
...which are mounted 65 screens, each strobing scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk...
...MOMI has eyes to play the Palladium. Not that the two institutions have radically different means or ends. Both occupy about 9,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space. Both display a Nam June Paik piece, clips from the compilation film Precious Images, and a model of a drive-in theater. Both have been ages in the planning, though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI was spawned by the venerable British Film Institute, it seems a more comprehensive...