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Film Notes From the CMA Series: April 2009
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Film Notes From the CMA Series. Sunday, April 19, 2009. Point Blank: Films of Disenchantment. The program "Point Blank: Films of Disenchantment" presents three significant examples of Film Noir from the late 1960s to late 1970s, when the genre reached its most extreme and experimental stage of development. Jack Shadoian, in his book Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster/Crime Film. The program begins with a screening of Point Blank. On the second-run market. In spite of this, the film has prove...
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Film Notes From the CMA Series: September 2008
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Film Notes From the CMA Series. Wednesday, September 24, 2008. It is appropriate that Olivier, who was born in 1907, would make his stage debut at the age of 14 as Kate in a school production of The Taming of the Shrew. Though Olivier was the star of one of the few major Shakespearean films of the 1930s, As You Like It. England 1936), he was not totally pleased with the stylistic approaches which the cinema had taken to Shakespeare's plays. Paul Czinner's production of As You Like It. England 1948), he w...
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Film Notes From the CMA Series: The Debonairs: Gary Grant and William Powell
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Film Notes From the CMA Series. Sunday, June 21, 2009. The Debonairs: Gary Grant and William Powell. The films in this program have been selected to emphasize particular aspects of both Grant's and Powell's screen personalities. The two films starring Gary Grant represent his portrayal of a distinctly masculine male who undergoes a series of humiliations that become a test of both love and character. In The Awful Truth. I Was a Male War Bride. Shadow of the Thin Man. Films, Shadow of the Thin Man. Was th...
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Film Notes From the CMA Series: August 2009
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Film Notes From the CMA Series. Sunday, August 16, 2009. The Japanese began producing films at approximately the same time as the West, but while the Western cinema was quickly taking shape, the Japanese cinema remained relatively stagnant. By the time the cinema became the major narrative art form in the West, the typical Japanese film served as a form of illustration for the bensei. The traditional storyteller. The center of attention was the bensei. Was produced by a French company). After years o...
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Film Notes From the CMA Series: Point Blank: Films of Disenchantment
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Film Notes From the CMA Series. Sunday, April 19, 2009. Point Blank: Films of Disenchantment. The program "Point Blank: Films of Disenchantment" presents three significant examples of Film Noir from the late 1960s to late 1970s, when the genre reached its most extreme and experimental stage of development. Jack Shadoian, in his book Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster/Crime Film. The program begins with a screening of Point Blank. On the second-run market. In spite of this, the film has prove...
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Film Notes From the CMA Series: August 2008
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Film Notes From the CMA Series. Thursday, August 21, 2008. As much as Wilder admired his adopted country, however, he never completely abandoned either his Viennese accent or his European-based perspective. This dichotomy between the two cultures directly and indirectly infuses his films with a sensibility that often reveals new angles on common sights, an outsider's more critical view on the very things that we take for granted. It was, however, Wilder's transition from screenwriter to director that all...
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Film Notes From the CMA Series: June 2009
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Film Notes From the CMA Series. Sunday, June 21, 2009. The Debonairs: Gary Grant and William Powell. The films in this program have been selected to emphasize particular aspects of both Grant's and Powell's screen personalities. The two films starring Gary Grant represent his portrayal of a distinctly masculine male who undergoes a series of humiliations that become a test of both love and character. In The Awful Truth. I Was a Male War Bride. Shadow of the Thin Man. Films, Shadow of the Thin Man. Was th...
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Cine-Moi: Wittgenstein
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Sunday, February 17, 2013. Derek Jarman is one of the best known figures in contemporary British cinema. Often, he has been one of the most controversial. His production of such films as The Tempest. The Last of England. Have been a wild mix of radical politics, gay issues, stunning visuals, and fractured narratives. Along the way, he has been generally acclaimed as the definitive filmmaker of post-punk England. Feature film. These facts beg the obvious question: why a movie about Ludwig Wittgenstein?
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Cine-Moi: Orlando
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010. The Kinks once musically suggested that "boys will be girls and girls will be boys." In Orlando. British director Sally Potter takes the idea just a bit further: the boy Orlando eventually becomes a woman. Even odder, Orlando is immortal, and it takes several centuries for anyone to notice the change. Since the book's first publication in 1928, a film version of Orlando. But Potter makes the film work. Even more amazing - given that Orlando. Orlando's sex change, meanwhile, ...
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Cine-Moi: Malice
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Sunday, February 17, 2013. Let's review some of the basic lessons of the modern thriller: 1) Don't have sex with anyone you don't know. 2) Don't have sex with anyone you do know. 3) Don't rent out rooms. 4) Don't rent to doctors. 5) Run a thorough security check on your spouse. Take these guidelines with you when you see Malice. They'll help you navigate some of the more convoluted plot points. They've got to kill the remaining footage somehow. Bill Pullman plays a college dean whose, main jobs seem to b...
