Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...bracket where she can scarcely make a shilling more, so Lesley Hornby, 20, is quitting her lucrative fashion career for the uncertainty of the cinema. Director Ken Russell (Women in Love), who will do her first flick, says: "She'll be the greatest thing to hit the screen since Monroe." "It's got to be something nice," insists the 91-lb. cockney sprite best known as Twiggy. "I couldn't do a big sexy role...
JOHN BARTH'S End of the Road is one of my favorite post-modern novels, and when I have fantasized about someday making a movie, it has usually been one of the two or three books I have envisioned myself bringing to the screen in the early 1980s...
...producer Terry Southern and director Aram Avakian co-authored the screen play. End of the Road was made with a great deal of improvisation in an abandoned textile factory in Great Barrington, Mass. The resulting film has all the flaws of Southern's earlier screenplay effort, Easy Rider, and none of its graces. Chalk up End of the Road to Southern's growing list of dismal creations that include such abortions as The Loved Ones, Barbarella and The Magic Christian...
...novel at the end, as the Doctor and Jake throw his lover's body into the middle of a lake from a rowboat. The viewer realizes that he too has been left stranded in a rowboat in the middle of nowhere as the final words flash across the screen-appropriately, if somewhat trite: End ... of the Road...
...play loses very little in transition from stage to screen-and often gains a great deal. Director William Freidkin ( The Night They Reided Minsky's and The Birthday Party ) has wisely chosen to "open up" the play very little. What scenes there are outside of Michael's claustrophobic east Sixties apartment work well with Crowley's conception. And Friedkin's superb eye for seine detail and character groupings greatly augment the power of the screenplay...