Word: cinema
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...Cinema: Searing documentary about ghetto basketballers...
...Fiction, and has everybody talk like him -- which is fine, since he's a great talker. Wes Craven, director of A Nightmare on Elm Street, takes himself very seriously now, so he calls his new picture Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and it is the ultimate in self-reverential cinema...
...Cinema: Woody Allen's latest is deft and funny and profound...
...Cinema: Schlock auteur Ed Wood is now a brand name...
...easy Hollywood cliches into which history has been transformed. The Van Doren clan is a caricature of effete Waspishness, Goodwin a garden-variety TV-movie crusader. Herb Stempel, who blew the whistle on the scandal, is reborn as perhaps the most offensively stereotyped Jew in modern American cinema. To gauge the injustice, one has to go back to the actual tapes of Van Doren and Stempel on Twenty-One. Van Doren's theatrical groping for answers today looks phony, while Stempel's stolid awkwardness is rather ingratiating. He may not have been classic TV material, but Herb was the better...