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...does not mean that the man behind the camera tithes his salary for Cambodian refugees; it means he knows how to make movies: how to shoot and edit pieces of film so they cohere, blend to create laughter or suspense, speak eloquently in the special language of the cinema. Steven Spielberg, Alan J. Pakula, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter know the language. So does Australian Director George Miller, whose first feature contains sequences of violent, pure cinema poetry...
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When the burning fuse reached Cape Town, the sprawling colored suburb of Elsies River exploded. At sunset last Tuesday evening, reported TIME'S Peter Hawthorne, a crowd of demonstrators came together in front of the Monaco Cinema to commemorate the 1976 uprising. Suddenly they were confronted by a large squad of white and colored riot police armed with rifles, shotguns and batons. The air was filled with the crash of breaking glass, the smell of burning tires and tear gas, and finally the sound of shots...
...equally delirious for Westerners to demand of today's Soviet film makers that they bring to their craft the passionate recklessness of their predecessors. Revolutionary fervor, like first love, passes quickly; in the long run, any marriage of art and the state demands fidelity and fealty. Official Soviet cinema is settling into middle age with all the virtues of a Chekhovian "good wife": it is handsome, thoughtful, often charming and, above all, discreet about the master's excesses and failings...
...some directors, the endings are darkly lit. The first director assigned to Slave of Love was a wildly talented young Uzbek named Rustam Hamdamov, the hope of the Soviet film school, who seemed destined to drag this once proud national cinema back to glory. But according to a friend, when the editors saw Hamdamov's lyrical-surreal footage, they fired him and brought in Nikita Mikhalkov to reshoot the film. Hamdamov's art, it seems, no longer appears in state cinemas; it hangs on the walls and in the closets of private homes. At last report, the U.S.S.R...