Word: cinemae
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Rather than providing a common experience as was originally envisioned, Gen Ed became a distribution requirement drawn from a list of non-departmental offerings. These classes often focused on obscure topics like "The Scandinavian Cinema" and "The Films of John Ford...
...goes -- on through fortune-hunting playboys and good-hearted whores, down to the last oppressed peon. Everything they do and say has been done and said before. But they simply refuse to admit it. The result is not epic cinema as David Lean defined it but as Bette Davis used to play it at Warner Bros. -- where history was a branch of melodrama and the subtler emotions were Xed out on the second-draft screenplay...
...default. The 1972 underground smash Pink Flamingos was about the "Filthiest People Alive" and climaxed with an act of coprophagy that still shocks; a Flamingos screening in Florida was busted last year. The film was so raw and assaultive in its mondo-trasho fashion -- a prime example of cinema sploshite -- that it made viewers feel it was made by those crude people onscreen. But no: Waters was using crudity as an ironic style. He was a gross-out Oscar Wilde, making clever comedies of bad manners...
...Cinema: New jock city: a recent crop of movies reduces the glory of sport to insipid, inspirational slapstick...
Thanks to Richard Corliss for writing the article on Daniel Day-Lewis ((CINEMA, March 21)). It is one of life's great pleasures to see anything done well -- be it brilliant acting from someone working at the top of his form or a celebrity profile as graceful, elegant and intelligent as its subject...