Word: films
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Israel set up a dummy movie company in Britain, ostensibly to shoot a film about the New Zealand air force's role in World War II. The Israelis bought four Bristol Beaufighters and a Mosquito with the understanding that the planes would not leave the country. One morning the five planes, cleared to fly as far as Exeter to shoot some battle scenes, took off and kept right on going, later turning up in the Israeli air force. They also purchased three old B-17 bombers, ostensibly for a Honduran airline, then flew...
Dylan has since left his house there and moved to Greenwich Village. But The Band plays on in Woodstock. "We didn't just knock off," Robbie tells it. "We were doing some things up here. But we weren't out there in front any more. We were fooling with film and stuff and making tapes and hanging out and doing this?what we do up here ?well, just living...
...enough to prompt the Bank of America to build a memorial wing and name it after him. Variety estimates that in 1970 his gross income will reach a high of $45,000 per week, which comes to a cozy $2,300,000 a year. That estimate does not include film sales or screenwriting fees for adapting his plays...
...valuable aspects of the film have been contributed by Director Tony Richardson. He has cut the text by about a third, giving the production a brisk pace without mangling it. Olivier's film never evoked "the pale cast of thought." It made Hamlet an agile activist who, as one critic put it, was "too busy" to kill the king. Richardson has concentrated on closeups of heads. The most concrete image in Hamlet is Yorick's skull, the symbol of mortality. The abstract image is the human brain. The existential terrain of Hamlet is the mind, vast...
...with Anthony Hopkins' Claudius and Judy Parfitt's Gertrude lacking sufficient force, maturity and sensuality. But Marianne Faithfull's Ophelia is remarkably affecting. She is ethereal, vulnerable, and in some strange way purer than the infancy of truth. Yet the granitic power and sweep of the film rest with Williamson. Here are antic wit, sly, sarcastic irony, erotic longings, a sentient intelligence that lights up thought like the sun at dawn...