Word: celluloid
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...generations ago, George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, gave Rochester a movie house. Better than that, he commissioned a brilliant young painter to create posters of the films on view. Alas, many of those celluloid epics have long since been turned into banjo picks, but the artwork survives in Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena (Abrams; 64 pages; $14.95). Here the famous and the forgotten are captured in the forceful style of art deco. Once upon a screen, these vamps, clowns and pirates romanced in a world of black and white. But outside the theater, Madalena made them leap...
...strange island and are tortured. See, even in the space of about two minutes, I already want them dead. I also want J.J. Abrams dead, but that’s for screwing up “Alias.” Key: TRAILER TRASH Awful. FUTURE UNCERTAIN Enh? CELLULOID GOLD Awesome! Warning: Quality of trailer does not necessarily denote quality of film...
...Anna Karina character in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie was based on her, as was Melanie Griffith's Lulu in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild. An adoring 1979 New Yorker profile by Kenneth Tynan (calling Brooks "the most seductive, sexual image of woman ever committed to celluloid") cemented her celebrity, and suddenly the Rochester, N.Y., recluse was up in the silent-movie Pantheon with Garbo and Lillian Gish...
...generations, proved to be the little one that roared. First performed in 1999, Fraser's love letter to his grandmother toured the world to acclaim-thanks in part to actress Madeleine Sami's extraordinary performance-and was even translated into Spanish. But all the while the playwright envisaged a celluloid version, and after several producers approached with the names of directors, Fraser decided to take the reins himself. Here he was guided by his leading lady Dee, 83, a veteran American stage actress who made her Broadway debut in the non-musical version of South Pacific, and who went...
...Borat CELLULOID GOLD Makes me want to get up and cheer. Patton Oswalt—the funniest stand-up comedian in America—saw a preview screening of this and said that he made the projectionist stop midway through because he was laughing too hard. I don’t actually laugh at the trailer, I just marvel at it. It makes you forget about the inevitable pain that you’ll feel when you have to sit through the build-ups to the punchlines in the interviews. Just enough to entice, not so much as to disgust...