Word: films
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best news of the year," raved a critic in the New York Times. "A showstopper," declared another. The reviews were not for a Broadway hit but for the hottest new product in photography: Kodak's supercrisp Ektar color + film. Not available in the U.S. for another month, the film is so much in demand that American shutterbugs and camera shops are buying rolls from dealers in Europe, where Ektar was introduced last November...
Hailed as the finest-grain color film ever made, Ektar enables photographers to enlarge pictures to poster size with almost no loss of clarity. The film is recommended for use only with a single-lens reflex camera, as Ektar is currently available in just two speeds: very slow (ISO 25) and very fast (ISO 1000). Clarity will not come cheap: Ektar 25 is expected to cost about $6 for a 24-exposure roll, compared with $4 for Kodak's most popular film, Kodacolor Gold...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious...
...board is not scheduled to reconsider Adams' case until December 1990. While he awaits final word on a new trial, Adams remains hopeful. "Eventually, I will win," he says. Meanwhile, Morris' documentary continues to gain attention and praise. The Thin Blue Line has won awards from the New York Film Critics' Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. What it has yet to win is Randall Adams' release...
...Friday, parents had the opportunity to relive the 350th celebration on film, and to survey the campus during a special Crimson Key tour...