Word: films
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...flesh-and-blood boxers to act the bout out before cameras. Marciano, who had been retired for 14 years, trained off 53 Ibs. and was fitted with a toupee. He and Muhammad Ali pounded away for three days, faking every contingency that could occur in a fight. Then the film editor cut and spliced the footage to match the computer script. Some sequences were still missing, and the boxers were brought back for two more days of shooting...
...Woroner claims that only he, his editor and his sound man know which one the computer decided was right. Bonded couriers from the Joyce Expediting Co. will deliver the film, and projectionists will not get it until 30 minutes before time to roll (10 p.m. E.S.T.). At the end, Woroner's messengers will pick up the reels and bring them back to his South Miami studio. There, he claims, he will keep the master print and destroy all the copies-except for one. It, naturally, will be submitted to the Library of Congress...
...Such a fragile theme could easily have been ground into pulp, but Salter is a film maker of discretion. He includes too many scenes of motoring and picnicking, but he has a laconic facility with dialogue and an eye for the small gesture that can transform a scene from an actor's project into reality. Sam Waterston is a superb young naturalistic performer, Robie Porter is convincing and human in an unsympathetic role, and Charlotte Rampling, all angles and sensuality, is that rare thing, a beautiful woman who can also fairly be called an actress...
...mistake" claims Jeb, "of my father's." Like two halves of the same soul, the siblings are rivals for the property and the woman, while outside a summer flood seems to threaten all creation. At last Chicken exhumes the ultimate family skeleton, and Jeb, the levee and the film simultaneously collapse...
SAMUEL FULLER is probably the greatest social critic among America's film-makers. "Most people say [social contradictions] should be left to the newspapers. But I say, on the contrary, that it is necessary to give them a dramatic form." For Fuller 'giving them a dramatic form' means more than inventing a plot that sets out right and wrong and a hero who battles for the good. None of his characters are aristocrats standing above society. Vulnerable without being weak or sentimental, they are beaten when they try to achieve their goals by ignoring some condition of social reality...