Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewers watched their television screens, transfixed. First came the sound of gunshots, and a woman shrouded in black crumpled to the ground. Then a djellaba-clad executioner raised his gleaming sword for the beheading, and a kneeling figure in white was suddenly red with blood. The scene, from a film titled Death of a Princess, re-enacted the double execution in 1977 of a married Saudi Princess, Mashall, 19, and her unmarried commoner lover for having committed adultery. Witnessed by hundreds in a parking lot in Jeddah, the executions were in accordance with the laws of the Koran. Shown over...
...viewers on May 12, was intended as "a serious and concerned journey into the Arab world," in the words of U.S. Executive Producer David Fanning, But within hours of the broadcast, Saudi Arabia reacted with a howl of protest. The Saudi embassy in London denounced the film as a "sensation-seeking piece of fiction" and "an unprincipled attack on the religion of Islam." What seems to have particularly offended the Saudis, besides the vivid re-enactment of the executions, was a series of scenes depicting the royal princesses as bored and vacuous vixens who spend most of their time watching...
...back through 50 years of records, Theodore James Jr., a general partner in Montgomery Securities, has set the record straight. Box office receipts fell from $732 million in 1930, the first full year of the Depression, to $482 million in 1933-a drop of about 34%. Employment in the film industry also fell from...
...Nijinsky's fatigue with a decadent life remains sketchy, and the script in general botches character development. After painstaking suggestions of Nijinsky's growing interest in the opposite sex--he asks Diaghilev to describe what sleeping with women is like, indulges in a lengthy kiss with a ballerina--the film presents his marriage to Romola as hysterical revenge on his mentor...
...movie has its moments--a cute line here, a nice touch there. Mostly, however, Nijinsky offers a series of stuffed Edwardian interiors with little passion to enliven them. Herbert Ross has done the unthinkable: made a film about dance that's heavy on its feet...