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  MAPS - Volume 4 Number 1 Spring 1993 - From Problem Child to Wonder Child: LSD turns 50
Albert decided to study chemistry because he was attracted by the miracles of physical matter and the plant world.
Albert realized that the animal results were not due to inactivity of the mushroom, but to insensitivity of the animal assay.
Albert emphasized Lewin's concept of phantastica drugs "exercising their chemical power on all the senses, but they influence particularly the visual and auditory spheres as well as the general sensibility." These drugs of illusion bring about cerebral excitation in the form of hallucinations and related altered perceptions.
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 DVD Talk > Reviews > The Moon and Sixpence
Albert Lewin was both praised and derided as a 'cultured' writer-director in the forties and early fifties.
Albert Lewin's sensitive adaptation of Somerset Maugham's 1919 book tells the story of a difficult artist who bears only a superficial resemblance to the life of Paul Gauguin, the famous painter who journeyed to the South Seas.
Albert Basserman (Foreign Correspondent) has an unusually proactive role as a doctor of the islands and Elena Verdugo (House of Frankenstein) switches from her usual sultry Gypsy roles to play a dusky tropical naïf: devoted, unspoiled and fully made up by Max Factor.
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 Albert Lewin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toray Lewin (1989–2050) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin by Susan Felleman (1997), ISBN 0805716254
This page was last modified 21:10, 30 November 2005.
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 The Picture of Dorian Gray - page 1
Lewin (1894-1968) was 50 at the time, a small, scholarly man who graduated from New York University, earned an MA in English from Harvard, and would have had a PhD from Columbia had he completed his thesis.
Lewin began his climb up the ladder as a reader for Samuel Goldwyn, then graduated to script clerk, film editor, scenarist, associate producer and finally assistant to MGM executive Irving Thalberg.
Lewin commissioned a number of Gauguin-like paintings which were photographed in Technicolor for a sequence in which they are found in a native hut.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Pandora and the Flying Dutchman at Epinions.com
To paraphrase a recent comment on one of my reviews, Lewin's artistic ambitions were thought to have about them "the smell of a frustrated amateur screenwriter." He longed to make the Philistines and the Critics praise his work.
In 1950, Lewin took leave and moved to British MGM to shoot a full color film based on a modern telling of the Legend of the Flying Dutchman.
Albert Lewin (1894-1968) made only two other films in his career, and those were minor efforts: SAADIA (1953) and THE LIVING IDOL (1955).
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 Albert Samson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lewin, an American transplanted to Somerset, England, has produced a series of novels set in Indianapolis, most of them featuring his low-rent gumshoe, ALBERT SAMSON.
Lewin has also written radio dramas for the BBC, and another series, starting with Family Business (1995), that's set in Bath and features The Lunghi Detective Agency, run by three-generations of an Anglo-Italian family.
Albert is the primary investigator in each book, unless otherwise noted.
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 bfi | NFTVA | Catalogues | The Picture of Dorian Gray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This excellent adaptation of Wilde's infamous novel is littered with characters of blurred sexuality and undescribed vice.
The film is also the meeting point of two of Hollywood's most intriguing mavericks - Albert Lewin and Hurd Hatfield.
Lewin's complex blend of Griffithian nightmare and moralising merges with a near-expressionist vision of Dorian's descent.
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 Saadia Film Review - Time Out Film
Lewin's weakest film, which he adapted from a French novel (Echec au destin by Francis D'Autheville), is set in Morocco and deals with the efforts of a Parisian doctor (Ferrer), abetted by the progressive, French-educated Caid (Wilde), to stamp out witch-doctoring in the villages.
He begins with a successful field operation on lovely young Saadia (Gam), popularly believed to be possessed by devils, for acute appendicitis; whereupon the evil Fatima (Rotha) sharpens up her spells to conjure vengeful demons.
You can see why Lewin wanted to make it, since the doctor's sceptical stance allows Lewin to pursue his own scholarly preoccupation with the rational foundations of myth and superstition.
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 private affairs of bel ami - movie and tv vault at videovista.net
Scriptwriter-director Lewin brought to each of these films characteristic qualities: literate dialogue, visual excellence and a representation of interior states, notably through colourful moments of formal art among them.
In the fin de siècle worlds of Dorian Gray and Bel Ami, Lewin sharpens the unease and implicit questioning of mores shown in his earlier Maugham adaptation and, avoiding the temptations of melodrama, he chooses specific historical milieu by which to communicate the ennui of the privileged and the corrupt.
Lewin's next work was the weirdly romantic Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (1951), his most ambitious film, the reception of which proved a disappointment and he never rose to such heights again.
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 ChiaroScuro DVD-Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Review: Lewin's extraordinary film is based on the story of the unfortunate sailor doomed to travel the oceans for all time until he finds a woman who loves him so much that she will sacrifice her own life for his salvation.
The legend is updated to a Spanish village in the '30s where various men compete for the affections of Pandora, a beautiful young American (Gardner), and where Mason's mysterious yacht puts into harbour.
Lewin combines a script of exuberant literacy with a visual splendour often bordering on the surreal.
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 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Maugham story on which this film is based unabashedly profiles the profligate career of the great Paul Gauguin, and Sanders plays this introspective, cruel-streaked genius to the hilt.
Lewin's direction is terse, swift, and often magnificent as he chronicles Strickland's meteoric career and love life, the best part of the film being that set in the tropics toward the end.
Here a sepia tone is employed to capture some of the illustrative flavor of the paintings shown and, near the finale, employs color to potent effect.
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 CineMythology
Characters who quote as liberally and as literately as Lewin’s do always seem to be a source of unease-witness reactions to Godard’s early work, as though mere quotation were itself a pretension.
Immediately a bell tolls and the camera dissolves –as though in response to its timeless summons– to a high angle shot of the beach, the sea and the ancient ramparts, slowly craning back to include, on the balcony of a modern apartment house, a young woman staring intently through a telescope.
One of the pleasures of the film, in fact, is the way its disparate fragments of legend and literature coalesce into a fantasy as richly satisfying as La Belle et la Bte, as beautifully (and meaningfully) shaped as the antique pot Geoffrey the archeologist finally succeeds in reconstructing.
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 Michael Z. Lewin - Home
It is the first Samson book in more than a dozen years and it went on sale December 17, 2004.
His assignment is to verify an alibi for the most notorious serial killer in Indianapolis history.
Albert's matchmaking daughter, a new lover, and a missing ex-wife for a cast that could star Woody Allen as Albert the mensch, Helen Hunt as his prescient daughter, and a half dozen from Tarantino's stable of character actors as the corrupt cops and the psycho killer.
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 Albert Lewin - The Moon and Sixpence | Movie (1943)
Albert Lewin - The Moon and Sixpence
The Tahitian portion of the story offers startling contrast in humorous moments and in most impressive scenes of film.
Albert Lewin's direction is keenly intelligent, shifting readily from lighter, funny moments to the harshly dramatic.
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 BBC - Films - review - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Despite the high melodrama, director Albert Lewin is careful not to allow the proceedings to become too hysterical.
The most talked about feature though of this film is undoubtedly the Technicolor ending that demonstrates the skill of the underrated Albert Lewin.
Rather than opt for the then exciting format of colour throughout, he saves it for an end sequence that is a classic slice of cinema.
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 Movie Review - Picture of Dorian Gray, The - eFilmCritic
Albert Lewin does a masterful job of writing and directing the famous novel by Oscar Wilde, but forgets to direct the film's main star.
The set design is brilliant, Dorian's childhood school room, where he hides the painting, is wonderful.
Lewin shot the film in fl and white, save for a couple of Technicolor shots of the portrait.
efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=7821   (563 words)

  
 Independent Producers: David Loew, Armand Deutsch, and Robert Stillman
In due time producer Albert Lewin, who had become my boss at MGM, formed an independent production company with David Loew, and they took me with them.
My career with Lewin and Loew was destined to be short because in early 1943 my draft number came up, and I had to get ready for induction into the army.
I volunteered before I was drafted, in the spring of '43, in the hope that I could work in an army film unit.
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 Cinefile Search Result: Detailed Information for  "Pandora And The Flying Dutchman - www.cinephilia.net.au
Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1950, United Kingdom)
The most engaging thing about this rather silly yarn stifling under upperclass English amour propre is the influence of 1940's British Surrealist and Romanticist painting on the cinematography (by Jack Cardiff who is best know for his work on the films of Powell and Pressburger) and art direction.
BTW: The tavern "Las Dos Tortugas" is the Spanish equivalnet for "The Two Turtles", the tavern in Albert Lewin's more compelling The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) BH Back to Search Result
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 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 feature film directed by Albert Lewin starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, and featuring Marius Goring.
"(A film) about a woman unable to love and a man unable to die – a baroque synthesis of classical myth and Germanic legend" – Susan Felleman, author of Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin
Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner) is the admired star of a small group of Anglo-American expatriates in the small Spanish port of Esperanza (the film was shot in Tossa de Mar).
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 Movie Info for The Private Affairs of Bel Ami on MSN Movies
Though based on a Guy de Maupassant story, Bel Ami seems to have been written by Oscar Wilde, another of Lewin's pets (e.g.
This 19th-century rake's progress is ultimately halted by a duel, and somehow we're sorry that we don't get to see Sanders pull off at least one more caddish trick to save himself.
Echoes from Lewin's previous works include his insertion of a Technicolor sequence (as he'd done in Dorian Gray and The Moon and Sixpence).
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 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Albert Lewin (based on the version of the Flying Dutchman legend in the opera by Richard Wagner)
Pandora was, in fact, deliberately, and pointedly, surrealist, according to Lewin himself, who had become friendly with a number of surrealist artists, including Man Ray and Max Ernst, during the Second World War and who had, through them, begun collecting surrealist art."
For further methodological remarks see DVDBeaver (click on "Methodology"): "We are not a lab and are doing a good a job as our time and energy permits.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Private Affairs of Bel Ami : Main
Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would a...
Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with Egyptian sculpture and feline symbolism, managed to inject both into The Private Affairs of Bel Ami.
Though based on a Guy de Maupassant story, Bel Ami seems to have been written by Oscar Wilde, another of Le...
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Barefoot Contessa at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Not only did THE RED SHOES influence an obsessed, peripheral aesthete like Albert Lewin, not to mention song and dance men like Stanley Donen and Gene Kelley -- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1952); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1953) -- it inspired the most successful producer/writer/director of his day, Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Brother of legendary Herman J. Mankiewicz (CITIZEN KANE, 1941), father of a future novelist (Tom) and a political expert (Frank) [the object of the Watergate Break-in], Joe Mankiewicz navigated a career which dated back to 1929 when he wrote subtitles for UFA in Germany.
As you can see, unlike Michael Powell or Albert Lewin, Joe Mankiewicz worked at breakneck pace, literally keeping a stop watch on himself and others, fining anyone who was a minute late, or who failed to hit a mark.
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Albert Basserman has appeared in the following movies, ordered with the most recent movie first.
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 David L. Loew: Enterprise Productions
He then became involved with several independent ventures of his own beginning in 1941.
He partnered with director Albert Lewin, a friend of his and a former supervisor at MGM under Thalberg, to release The Moon and Sixpence (1942) through United Artists.
In 1943 with Arthur S. Lyons, Loew organized a company called Producing Artists, Inc. And then, at the end of the war, he formed Enterprise Productions with Charles Einfeld, the former Warner Bros. publicity chief.
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 F12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert (Spencer) LEWIN [P28] = Mary Ann Diana ISAACSON [P36]
Alias Mary Ann Diana LEWIN (Tuesday 18 October 1825)
Frederick Albert [P38] = Isabella [P4333] > Family [F633]
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 Intelliflix: Rent Pandora And The Flying Dutchman on DVD
But, will Pandora give her life for the man she loves?
Pandora And The Flying Dutchman is producer/director Albert Lewin's (The Picture Of Dorian Grey - 1945) hauntingly romantic film of the famed legend of The Flying Dutchman.
In one of the most sensually rich performances of her career, Ava Gardner stars as Pandora Reynolds, a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, with whom all men fall hopelessly in love.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Albert Lewin : Main
American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter Albert Lewin first worked as an English instructor at the University of Missouri after earning a Master's degree at Harvard.
During WW I, he served in the military, and afterwards was appointed assistant national director of the American Jewish Relief Committee; he then became a dram...
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 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Episode List
Strictly Relative P: Stanley Rubin D: Hollingsworth Morse W: Albert E. Lewin Director of photography: Dale Deverman Film editor: Joseph Dervin, Sr.
The Medicine Ball P: Stanley Rubin D: Gary Nelson W: Albert E. Lewin and Edith Sommer (teleplay); Edith Sommer (story) Director of photography: Dale Deverman Film editor: Axel Hubert Music supervision: Lionel Newman 3224.
Son of the Curse P: Stanley Rubin D: John Erman W: Albert E. Lewin Director of photography: Dale Deverman Film editor: Axel Hubert 3226.
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 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A Spanish nightclub singer forgoes all other suitors when she tragically falls for a man she can never have--the notorious Flying Dutchman.
A surrealistic, Technicolor fantasy from British director Albert Lewin.
Produced by Dorkay productions in association with Romulus Films.
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