Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...growing up as Edgar Bergen's daughter, she says: "One may not turn out exactly normal when you have two wooden dummies for brothers, each with his own room." Or her days with the jet set: "That was a valuable exposure to the ultimate in boredom." Or her screen performances: "I'm great at the physical stuff: running, riding, jumping. Acting-that's another story...
Keaton's career crisis was the overfamiliar chronicle of the silent-screen star undone by talkies. Alcoholism and poverty followed the decline. It was not until the '50s that he was rediscovered and merchandised in Ford commercials and films like Beach Blanket Bingo. Such travesties are happily omitted from the Rohauer restoration. Instead, there are the fabulous originals, now preserved on celluloid stock -works like The General, a Civil War comedy which could have been photographed by Mathew Brady, and the complex and hilarious Navigator, deservedly Keaton's biggest moneymaker...
...think that a film represents reality is to obscure the significance of its design. If you want to discuss the meaning of a film all you can talk about is its form- the way this and that occur, and the way that is juxtaposed to this, on the screen and nowhere else. A film's form does not lay out a spectacle without interpreting the material of that spectacle. It sets thing struggling against thing and thereby generates specific emotions and ideas. If you do not become aware of that struggle and participate in it, you accept the emotions...
...commercial promotes the bank's new Master Charge credit cards, the first in the state to carry the holder's identifying photograph. "They call it the Face Card," says Sutton, peering out from the screen and holding a card with his photo on it. "Now when I say I'm Willie Sutton, people believe me." An announcer winds up the commercial: "Tell them Willie Sutton sent...
Rich Gatto brought the ensuing kickoff out to the 12, Foster found himself in the hole for the third time in four possessions. A screen pass to Tom Miller put the Crimson at the 33, but Steve Harrison came up short on third...