Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...part can." It did. She took parts with a repertory company and caromed around Europe. In Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl to co-star as Yves Montand's adolescent amour in La Guerre Est Finie. Geneviève transferred from the Parisian television screen to the film scene without missing a cue. She appeared opposite Alan Bates and Jean-Paul Belmondo, once as a madwoman, then as a spoiled heiress. The parts pinched a bit, but somehow Geneviève let out the seams and made them star-sized...
However, Horovitz very definitely has an expanding career now. One new experiment for him is film. In contrast to his intimate involvement with all his plays, his attitude towards the silver screen is somewhat more ambivalent. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing with film; I'm just in it." "Being in film" for Horovitz involves writing the screenplay for The Strawberry Statement for the Cames Film Festival and work in progress on a film called Speed is of the Essence about amphetamines. The story of how James Kunen got to the Cannes Film Festival...
...weeks ago today, Crowley spent the afternoon in Boston to talk about the film version of Boys, which he both adapted for the screen and produced. It was a week before the film was to have its world premiere in New York and Crowley gave the impression that he was running a little scared. As we walked with the film's press agent into a large Cadillac limousine waiting outside the MGM Screening Room in downtown Boston, he was silent. It wasn't until we were seated in the living room of his enormous Ritz-Carlton suite and room service...
Crowley likes the movies and would like eventually to write directly for the screen, directing his own screen play. He feels he is ready to do so now that he has gotten his feet wet producing the filmed Boys...
...that helps tone down the film's giddy aspirations. As Petrocelli, Newcomer Barry Newman must cope with the staggering improbability of the lawyer's very presence in the town. But he approaches the role with cheerful pugnacity instead of that air of insufferable concern that overlays most screen lawyers. The master craftsman in this melange, though, is Harry Gould, who portrays the guileful, geriatric district attorney. Wearing a rumpled suit and a feral gleam, he baits witnesses with soft-voiced ruthlessness and brazenly plays on the jury's sympathies. His well-modulated performance demonstrates a principle that...