Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BILLY WILDER'S BEST comedies could make you laugh when you saw them and still leave you thinking, if you were to inclined, when you get home. His bawdy farces were popular and funny, even a bit courageous for their time in the moral questions they rained. By the middle '60's, though, the sex comedies Wilder was making were far behind the vanguard, and he showed no sign of climbing out of his rut until 1970, when he made The Private Life of Sherlock Halmes, his best film in at least a decade. Had Wilder regained his originality...
...Wilder made the film in capris, Sorrento and a studio in Rome, yet Aventi! has little more Italian flavor than Joe's Plaza. Wilder's infatuation with obtrusive angular shots emphasizes hotel musicians, airplane landing gear, the mortuary, and the like. He hopes on establish ambiance based on the incongruity of Italy the jet set vacation spot and the "real" Italy--a country he feebly represents with fetching shots of nuns, priests, hungry boys, and a breast-feeding woman. The incongruity is, in Avanti!, only a clumsy attempt to create an ironic background for ironic romance...
Actor Jack Lemmon will make an appearance today-at the "pre-premiere" of Bill Wilder's latest film Avanti! One hundred free tickets for the film will be available at Hilles this noon; the movie will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Hilles Library Cinema...
WINTHROP HOUSE. Fri. Sat. 8 and 10 p.m., EMERSON 210. $1. West European Studies and Dudley Films are co-sponsoring a preview screening of Avanti, a new Billy Wilder film. Jack Lemmon will discuss the film after the screening at the HILLES LIBRARY CINEMA. Fri., 12.30 discussion app. 2:30, 100 free tickets will be distributed, first-come, first-serve beginning noon Friday...
...years, no one built a new legitimate theater on Broadway. Now there is one: the Uris Theatre, with 1,896 seats, at the base of a new 50-story office building. To celebrate its opening, a crowd of Broadway luminaries-including Ethel Merman, Thornton Wilder, Fred and Adele Astaire and a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First...