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Such incidents are the equivalent of cinema's frozen frames, and they give Weintraub's chronicle the sense of a long documentary film, traversing forgotten years and miles. On the surface, all is anecdote and diversion. But there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein...
...darker in the comic nightmare Gremlins, a bit crumpled and smudged in the fun-house frenzy of The Goonies. But the films' very limitations are identity badges on a body of work as personal, even as obsessive, as that of Ingmar Bergman, David Lean or any other monarch of cinema academe. Spielberg the director is supposed to be a movie machine, and if that is so, fine. We need more artisans with his acute eye and gift for camera placement and movement, lighting, editing and the care and feeding of actors. But he is also a compulsive teller of stories...
...away from Kansas. A California child opens the eyes of his extraterrestrial friend to a toy store's worth of American brand names, and E.T. strikes a responsive chord on every continent. For most of this century the world's fantasies have been formed and reflected by the American cinema...
...ever been thus, for American cinema is truly an immigrant art form, made by immigrants for immigrants. From the beginning, each group of outsiders -- the ones behind the scenes and the ones gazing at the screen -- fed each other's good fortune. The audience made the filmmakers rich and famous; in return, movie people taught moviegoers, in the U.S. and all over the world, how to be Americans. When Film Maestro Federico Fellini was in New York City last month to receive tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, he recalled the spell American movies cast over his provincial...
...millions, dazzled by this vision, determined right then to pack their bags and book passage for the U.S.? How many millions more stayed put, but discovered and appropriated the American style? See us and be like us. And just about everybody did. The American century began with the American cinema...