Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...previous toy films, they explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over a black top. When the making of bread was the topic for a film presentation at UCLA in 1953, they added smells of freshly baked bread to the images and sounds on the screen...
Last weekend, thousands of people, brandishing their twenty-five dollar tickets, packed themselves into the Savoy Theatre. The movie screen was lifted to make way for the opera sets, and the audience saw The Fisherman and His Wife instead of The Kremlin Letter . Boston deserves better than this...
...1930s, Stander helped organize the Screen Actors Guild, raised money for the Spanish Loyalists, fought for release of the Scottsboro boys. "I was branded a nigger-loving Communist and every other red spot you can mention," he says. "I didn't work again for a major studio...
...rest of this vast cast, I can only make limited suggestions. The Soothsayer should not be played like Tiresias. Chairman and Iras, two thankless roles must either put on more or different clothes. The colored battle-screen made no contribution. More seriously, the court at Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout...
Every year sees the appearance of fictional contrivances that pause briefly as larvae in book form before butterflying their way onto the screen. But Veteran Pulp Writer Lawrence Sanders has achieved some sort of distinction in the genre. In his very first try at a hardcover book he has created a dreadful hybrid: part novel, part script. It has been a bestseller since the day it left its publisher's cocoon some weeks ago. Grateful Columbia Pictures has already snapped...