Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...really amused at the review of Private Benjamin by Richard Schickel [Nov. 24], who couldn't, it seems to me, give the movie any credit for being just plain entertainment. The film is simply an amusing way to face the fact that it is -has been, and always will be-"a man's world." Goldie Hawn was great...
That night, while thousands huddled in open fields or watched special film showings in the city square, the earth began to rumble. A quake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated Haicheng, collapsing buildings, turning bridges into grotesquely twisted heaps and tearing up roads. The death toll could easily have run into six figures. Thanks to the forewarning, it was probably fewer than...
...every classroom lecture were as lucid and entertaining as Mon Oncle d'Amerique-and if every film were as witty and well crafted-our colleges would be filled with scholars and our movie theaters with works of art. What may look at first like a film experiment as dry as the dust on a neglected library shelf turns out to be a spectacular juggling act: of documentary and fiction, analysis and creativity, determinism and free will, comedy and tragedy, the past and the present. The three jugglers-Gruault, Resnais and Laborit-work in perfect sync, perhaps because their...
Throughout the fall, the Asian American Seminar organized a series of evening presentations to celebrate our culture and to share our identities and histories. We presented slideshows such as "Images of Asian Women" and "Reparations and Redress"; and films such as "Wataridori, Birds of Passage" about the lives of three Issei--first generation Japanese-Americans, and "Cruisin' J-Town" about the Japanese-American internment. In addition we produced an Asian American cultural night of music, poetry, and film...
KUROSAWA SAID he was making an antiwar film with Seven Samurai as well; he tacked on a coda where the survivors bitterly realized that their fellow samurai had died for nothing. But we go back to that film for the kinetic charge of the battle scenes, for the lyrical action. Like Peckinpah in The Wild Bunch, Kurosawa inadvertently ended up affirming the violence he set out to condemn. Now, he has made a true anti-war film, with all the horror of battle and none of the thrill...