Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Then, Illsley hastened to explain, "It's had its day, that sort of thing. Very boring. This is a film, you know, with a plot. We considered videotape but the people using film use it with a bit more sensitivity...
...Trust is the latest addition to what appears to be a new genre: God movies. Religion is enjoying a renaissance in America and the film industry obviously intends to cash in. That's all right, but this movie's only message is that Christianity today is too concerned with money. Such innovative criticism...
Python was assisted by Neil Innes, who did most of the musical interludes and was one of the unexpected delights of the evening; and Carol Cleveland (both are Python TV and film alumni...
DIED. Leon Janney, 63, child actor in such movies as Courage (1930), Abie's Irish Rose (1928) and several Our Gang comedies who went on to a busy career in radio, theater, film and television; of cancer; in Guadalajara, Mexico. Janney made his debut as a two-year-old vaudevillian in his home town of Ogden, Utah, portrayed the all-American boy Richard Parker in The Parker Family on both radio and television, and was also noted for roles like Mr. Peachum in the 1956 off-Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera...
...rest of the cast is excellent too, but because Tim is the only one who fully grasps Bergman's philosophical idea, he is the only one who can express a full range of free, unpuzzled emotions. His wisdom, compassion and anguish briefly quicken and warm a bleak film that is more interesting to analyze than to attend; for the fact is that Bergman has set himself a most formidable artistic task in this film. Marionettes, obviously, are less than human-the dead playthings, in Bergman's scheme of things, of a dead God. The great director...