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...film version of the legend of King Arthur--is that it's playing at the same theater as Star Wars: because, if not for Star Wars, there probably wouldn't be any Excalibur. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum, shielded from social forces, and in this country, cinema--perhaps, the most commercial of all art forms--is controlled by money. Studios, not artists, for the most part, determine cinematic trends by what will sell. To capture audiences, they try to identify some vague "national mood," exploiting what they see as America's collective unconscious in return...
Compared with Boorman, the other two major mannerists of the English cinema -Joseph Losey and Ken Russell-look like a pair of sensible shoes...
DURING THE great schism in French cinema many years ago, when the New Wave reared its vicious little head, Francois Truffaut emerged on the side of the angels. A sentimentalist and romantic, Truffaut seemed to lose any grittiness he once had. The tough but compassionate voyeur lost the harsh edges, the very qualities much of the filmmaking world was exploring with a vengeance The Truffaut of The 400 Blows gave way to the Truffaut of The Man Who Loved Women and Day for Night. He treated even his most repellent characters with extraordinary affection. When Trauffaut took a role...
...computer program is being put to a wide range of uses. It helps Allerton Cushman Jr., a New York financial analyst, to project insurance-industry profits during the week and tote up his income taxes on the weekend. The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre in Beverly, Mass., bought VisiCalc to figure out which pattern of movie show times draws the best box-office receipts. An accounting firm in Las Vegas plans to use VisiCalc to tell its gambling-house clients how to position slot machines around the floor to ensure the biggest take. VisiCalc is obviously one composition that...
...American Symphony at last weekend's premiere. It is-as silent film scores always were-full of quotations from the masters and plenty of bombast. (After a few more special evenings in major cities, the film will go into general release.) Anyone interested in the history of the cinema will want to see Napoleon. Even those less devoted to film, or less concerned than Gance was with French national mythology, will find plenty to beguile and dazzle them here. They literally don't make 'em like this any more...