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...just technicians but creators have that retrospective spirit. Fully half of our cinema entries are set in the past, from a decade ago back to World War II and into the mythical mists of the Qing dynasty. Some of our top CDs are replays of Shostakovich and Django Reinhardt. The hip place for Londoners to see modern art is in a revamped old power station. The best of theater includes a Trojan War epic and something called "Hamlet." And on our fiction list, No. 4 is... "Beowulf...
...make its money back from the soundtrack album, Shenson struck bold notes. He hired a talented fellow American-in-exile, Richard Lester, to direct the film. Lester had worked with Sellers and Milligan and was a swift-witted TV and film director, alert to the strains of the New Cinema, including the naturalism of handheld cameras and kinetically paced shooting and editing...
...break into the national scene who's attempting to bring out a more vicious and politically incorrect humor, the kind left untouched by more established comics. He tries to make people laugh, whether or not it damages feelings. Gilman lets this play out as he covers Tim in a cinema verit-style documentary, letting Tim make or break himself under the microscope of his audience and the camera. Through Tim and his fellow comics' exploits on the stage and off, Kyle attempts to explore the world of underappreciated (sometimes deservedly, sometimes not) stand-up comedians. "I have gained a whole...
Richard Schickel's review of the film Pay It Forward was waaaaay too cynical [CINEMA, Oct. 23]. We were a better nation when Frank Capra was making those feel-good movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. If Pay It Forward's director Mimi Leder and her cast can even come close to making us feel uplifted and inspire us to go out and practice random acts of kindness, then good for them. Our country could use a little "Capra-corn," even if it's a pale imitation. PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...
...This fanboy's favorite Mikels opus, however, is the redoubtable "Ten Violent Women" (1979). Ted's most loosely plotted picture (loose scripting being a supreme virtue in exploitation cinema), "Women" concerns a group of female miners whose jewel heists and drug deals land them in prison. Once there, we witness the requisite staples of the women-in-prison genre (making this the most lurid film Mikels ever made) as the girls engage in shower catfights, evade the lustful warden, and endure a bizarre paint-can-on-the-head torture session. They eventually escape to safety - and the waiting arms...