Word: cinemae
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...eyes of children. The part of the objective observer is played by Malik's bespectacled older brother, Mirza, who concerns himself solely with the outcomes of events. His detached perspective suggests that of the filmmaker, a suggestion further enhanced by his fascination with cameras, and with what little cinema he can find in backward Sarajevo...
What he nourished there for the decade between writing and shooting Ran was a dream that inevitably obsesses (and generally defeats) most great filmmakers: the creation of a work that realizes cinema's unique capacity for the sweeping epic gesture. The problem in realizing what may be the movie's ideal form is to keep one's balance. Reach too far in one direction, and all you do is bring on the empty horses. Restrain the impulse, and you may only bring forth empty images, beautiful and static. It is on the ground that lies between melodrama and abstraction that...
...baby sitter can be found, a happy jaunt to the store can turn into a disaster. The child starts to cry, and Mom and Dad begin to shout. Joseph Adelman believes he has a solution. A former executive with United Artists and Paramount, Adelman recently opened Kidpix Theaters, a cinema that offers continuous 95-minute programs of cartoons and children's films between 11:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the Galleria at South Bay in Redondo Beach, Calif. Shopping-center-bound parents drop off their youngsters (ages five to ten) at Adelman's Kidpix flicks. Each child is identified...
...played as if it were a sweet game a mother would teach her adoring child. Male violence is less sexual than paternal. Passion is wanting throughout, and a radiance that emanates from something other than a klieg light. It's all very pretty, but it's cinematography, not cinema...
Most movie tie-ins are quickie paperbacks. But the current release of Out of Africa (see CINEMA) has led to Isak Dinesen's Africa (Sierra Club; 142 pages; $35), an enticing blend of passages from the memoirs that inspired the film and photographs that powerfully evoke the countryside. Baroness Karen Blixen lived from 1913 to 1931 in the highlands of what is now Kenya, then returned to Denmark, where under the pen name Isak Dinesen she recalled her former home in prose as direct and luminous as the land: "Mombasa has all the look of a picture of Paradise, painted...