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Finger on the button, eye glued to the viewfinder, he crouches there, trying to imitate a fireplug's unobtrusiveness while putting a frame around inchoate reality. But much as one admires the discipline of the cinema verite cameraman, sooner or later there comes a time when one wants to scream at him, "Stop being a camera! Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal...
...film that should be an assignment for VES 194. "Romantic Cinema," is Woody Allen's newest effort, The Purple Rose of Cairo (Harvard Square). It's your type of movie. Mother, with Mia Farrow laboring in squalor to keep herself and her brutish husband (Danny Aiello) alive, and Jeff Daniels swooping down off the screen to save her. Fred Astaire even makes a brief appearance...
...theater so fascinated with failure? Could it be the sense of inferiority the American stage occasionally displays towards the European? The jealousy of the theater towards the mega-successful cinema? An expression of the neurotic personalities typical of live performers? Perhaps the theater cannot represent the heroic or estimable man without having him bursting into song or a nice two-step. Bobby, raised on the Rifleman and Gunsmoke, discovers that the last of the working class heroes is dead; not only have cowboys disappeared, but their ideals are bankrupt in the urban jungle. The modern hero, such...
Schickel, a TIME Cinema critic, ruefully considers all aspects of celebrity, including the dark facet of notoriety. John W. Hinckley Jr. stands as an exemplar, a recipient of that "wildly parodistic version of celebrity treatment that is accorded the criminal who has assaulted a well-known person. He gets a police escort and a motorcade . . . For the first time in his hitherto anonymous life people will be curious about his history, his thoughts. In due course, his ravings may find their way into print. Or he will have his story told by a famous novelist...
They should be the best of the rest of the world: five films representing the cream of international cinema. Yet this year, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film, you could almost hear a chorus of groans in a dozen tongues. What are these movies? Who ever heard of these directors? Who chooses these things, anyway? Qu'est-ce qui se passe? On Oscar night next Monday, five anonymous films will be filling slots that might have been reserved for Fellini or Bergman, for A Sunday in the Country...