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...Channel 4 movies that have become art-house hits in the U.S. are products of an ambitious effort to wed cinema and television: the network has co-funded more than 70 feature films. Its purely TV offerings have appeared more spottily in this country, but the sampling has been impressive. The Price, for example, is a suspense thriller that transcends its genre by an uncompromising, morally complex examination of the characters involved; 26 Bathrooms, a tongue-in-cheek tour of lavish and eccentric British lavatories, is the sort of loopy project one could never imagine on American TV. Though much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Channel Snore to the Fore | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...their films shall ye know them. Looking at any national cinema, a viewer inevitably sketches a personality profile of that country: its mood and tempo, its political priorities, its sense of humor (if any) and, above all, its attitudes toward sex and romance. Americans, to judge from the movies they make and attend, are fast, rough, raunchy lovers -- backseat studs and born- to-thrill prom queens. Canadians cannot decide whether to imitate American energy or British reserve. Germans are dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man, a Woman and Some Dogs | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...Cinema Assembly Square, 35 Middlesex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

...Janus Cinema, 57 John F. Kennedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

...Cinema 57, 200 Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

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