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...statement in your Cinema review that the villain Wez is "Apache-coiffed" is wrong. The hair style in question might have been seen on a Mohawk, one of the five tribes of the Iroquois Nation, but never on any self-respecting Apache...
...largest international gatherings. It is too large to satisfy the restless crowds and their hopes for great movies, big bucks or an invitation to the right party. And so there are three coexisting subfestivals. On the one hand, Cannes is a glutton's banquet of world cinema: some 350 movies unspooling at all hours in more than a dozen theaters. On the other, it is a showplace and marketplace for the industry's producers, distributors and exhibitors, from Hollywood moguls to Hong Kong porn merchants. And on the third hand - the one in your pocket: Cannes also attracts...
...films were elbowing for attention. The rush of local productions is due in no small degree to generous federal and state subsidies for fringe film makers. But even these have started to pay off. Filmverlag der Autoren, the production company that has supported many pioneers of the new German cinema for more than a decade, finally went into the black last year. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders have earned reputations as world-class film makers. These and other directors who restored German film to artistic prominence after 40 years in the Nazi and postwar wilderness are winning...
...know if you're crazy or just ridiculous," Primo's wife tells him. Bertolucci dares to provoke the same question about his film. If the verdict must be "ridiculous," it is because he has chosen not to challenge his audience with the guerrilla strategies of post-narrative cinema, but simply to befuddle. He seems determined not to choose between his sympathetic burgher and the seductions of Red Brigades chic - and thus deprives his story of its inherent drama. One would welcome a point of view here. After all, propaganda have rewards...
Nuclear weapons pose "an acute criminal" threat which can only be stopped by grass-roots activism, Dr. Helen M. Calidoctt, former Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, told an overflow crowd of 350 people at the Galeria Cinema Friday night...