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...inside them. Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Mastroianni: he's in that great class." Like those actors, Depardieu is capable of melodramatic excess; to give all is sometimes to give too much. But also like them, he has set an indelible stamp on his country's films, defining current French cinema as fully as any auteur...
...Hammer Museum cannot evolve into a serious collection. It would have difficulty making a mark as a site of temporary shows, since there is too much competition from other Los Angeles museums. Perhaps, as one critic suggested, the place could be converted into the Armand Hammer Memorial Multiplex Cinema. Or perhaps it should be left as it is, a warning to egotistical collectors who think they can achieve immortality by setting up their own museums. A monument, in short, to the vanity of vanity...
...those students, Cyrus I. Harvey '47, convinced the theater's owner at the time, Bryant Holiday, to convert the building into a cinema. As a movie house, the Brattle gained notoriety in 1955 by successfully challenging Massachusetts blue laws restricting films that could be shown on Sundays...
...Cinema Paradiso A little boy in a small Italian town serves as acolyte to the keeper of the flame -- the projectionist in the local theater. With graceful sentiment, director Giuseppe Tornatore evokes the magic by which our first films grasp at memory...
...CINEMA: Oscar gold in Christmas stockings...