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...Herald-Examiner recently ran on page two an unannounced two-column Loynds report headlined HOLLYWOOD TRIBUTE TO ORSON WELLES. Wrote Loynds: "Welles' greatest film contribution is Citizen Kane (1941), which stunned the film world with its remarkable cinematic control and invention and did for post-World War II cinema what D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation had done for cinema before the '40s." However, the old man's ghost soon walked again. By the later editions, Loynds' paean to Citizen Kane had vanished from the story on orders of the managing editor...
Commenting on the director's stylistics, Kael states. "This time [Cassavetes, the director] abandons his handsome, grainy simulated cinema-verite style." Stephen states: "The only scene of Nick at work is shot in the handsome, grainy, cinema-verite style characteristic of Cassavetes's earlier work." Kael closes her article by comparing Cassavetes to Harold Pinter: "[Cassavetes's] special talent--it links his work to Pinter's--is for showing intense suffering from nameless causes." Stephen, towards the end of his review, states, "Cassavetes's admirers compare his home-movie method to Harold Pinter's drama...
...when they try to ignore her. At a party she gives for her own children, she stampedes them into a performance of Swan Lake and supervises their deaths in a finale accompanied by a thunderous orchestra. The only scene of Nick at work is shot in the handsome, gralay, cinema-verite style characteristic of Cassavetes's earlier work. We got a sense of the other source of pressure in Nick's life, although the workers here as in other seenes are just a bit romanticized...
...Jackson by Producer David Wolper at a total cost of $30,000 (including air time on the CBS network), opened with the candidate rising from his table at the Century Plaza to the applause of the guests and beginning his speech to them. The scene set an affective cinema verite tone for the filmed highlights of Jackson's career that followed...
...film "festivals" starting in Boston and Cambridge this week celebrate what are probably the cinema's two most popular genres--the whodunit and the skin flick. In the sixties film festivals tended to showcase a great actor or director, and the nearly constant Bergman and Bogart festivals at places like the Brattle Square are holdovers from those days. Now they tend to focus on particular genres. These festivals aren't Hitchoock festivals or even Radley Metzger festivals; they aim to show the whole range of detective films and erotic films, the good, the bad, and the commercial, the typical...