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 Cinsher Film Stills
In the Untitled Film Stills there are no Cleopatras, no ladies on trains, no women of a certain age.
Her film stills look and function just like the real ones—those 8-by-10-inch glossies designed to lure us into a drama we find all the more compelling because we know it is not real.
For her the pop-culture image was not a subject (as it had been for Walker Evans) or raw material (as it had been for Andy Warhol) but a whole artistic vocabulary, ready-made.
www.terrace.qld.edu.au /library/grade11/art/cinsherfilmstills.htm   (408 words)

  
 Arthurian Film
The charges leveled against the film are generally that the lead roles were miscast, that the direction was ponderous, and that, at nearly three hours, the film was too long.
Clearly, Zucker intends his film to be an Arthuriad for the 1990s, but the film fails to capture the spirit of the original legend or to make a case for its contemporary translation of the oft-told story of the Arthur-Lancelot-Guinevere love triangle.
Donner's film, which was shelved by the studio for several years before being dumped for television release, is one of the silliest films ever made about the Arthurian legend.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/harty.htm   (11005 words)

  
 Spacesuited Women
End scene where Sigourney slowly dons a spacesuit in the shuttle to kill the alien...
Jenny plays a NASA astronaut in this episode, and towards the end of the story is seen in this apollo launch suit as she is launched into space...
Joan is one of the space station astronauts trapped on the malfunctioning station and needing to be rescued.
members.aol.com /munday6877/suit70.htm   (11005 words)

  
 Scared Straight! (1978): CAST - PopMatters Film Review
These young men and women may have started down the wrong path, but they ultimately found their way back to "society." This happy ending, however, may be a little too optimistic.
The original film's low production costs -- the participants were not mic-ed individually, and often it's difficult to hear what they're saying -- lend a decidedly filmstrip-like quality to the finished product.
For example, neither film addresses concerns that the tactics employed by the Rahway State Prison's Lifer's Program may actually increase delinquent behavior in juveniles.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/scared-straight.shtml   (11005 words)

  
 The Big Sleep (1946)
Although the film was released in mid-1946, it was actually filmed mostly in the fall of 1944 (about six months before Bacall and Bogart were married).
It is a very complex, confusing, logic-defying whodunit with a quintessential private detective (Marlowe), false leads, unforgettable dialogue and wisecracks, raw-edged characters, sexy women (including the two daughters of a dying millionaire, a bookseller, and others), tough action, gunplay, a series of electrifying scenes, and screen violence.
The commonly-seen version of this big-budgeted film included some of the toughest, most sexually-electric, innuendo-filled dialogue in film history between its two main leads, Bogart and Bacall (an off-screen romantic couple fulfilling their romance on-screen).
www.filmsite.org /bigs.html   (11005 words)

  
 Howard Hawks: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
Discusses the way in which women are perceived as dangerous in the films of Howard Hawks, with special reference to "Only angels have wings".
Places film outside literary tradition and claims the music-related use of dialogue - esp. as practised by Howard Hawks - to be of greater importance than a reading of the script would imply.
A visual ethnographic history tracing the adaptation of cigarette to film, with particular attention to the rituals of smoking exploited by director Howard Hawks and screenwriter Jules Furthman.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/hawksbib.html   (11005 words)

  
 Hooray for Hollywood!
Before addressing further the numerous differences in the Marlowe character of The Big Sleep, and the Marlowe of The Long Goodbye, it may be helpful to understand a little about the two actors assigned to the task of portraying him, as well as the star system itself.
Cawelti, in fact, explains that these two films are “the two most remembered and perhaps the most memorable versions of a narrative formula that has been replicated in hundreds of novels, films, and television programs” (227).
This fact is due largely to his similar performance in another classic film noir, The Maltese Falcon (1941), in which he portrays detective Sam Spade.
www.cinemascoped.blogspot.com /longgoodbye.html   (11005 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: The Big Sleep
Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946) is better realized than the Michael Winner version in 1978 which starred Robert Mitchum and is set not in California (where many hard-boiled novels and films are set, and from which they take their flavor), but in London of the 1970s.
The plot of The Big Sleep is complex, leading Howard Hawks, the first and most successful of the filmmakers to adapt it for the movies, to say that he never did understand who killed one of the characters--and when he telegraphed Chandler for clarification, Chandler himself was unable to provide a definitive answer.
Analyses of the adaptation of novels to films, however, often founder on arguments about the faithfulness of the adaptation.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100127   (11005 words)

  
 CineWomenNY: Our Buddies
New York Women in Film & Television is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to helping women reach the highest levels of achievement in the film, television and new media industries, and to promoting equity for women in these industries.
NYWIFT was founded in 1978 and now numbers more than 1,000 professional members working in all areas of the film, television and new media.
New Filmmakers is held at the Anthology Film Archives.
www.cinewomenny.org /archives/buddies.html   (696 words)

  
 Australian Film Bibliography
Australian Film Commission and the National Working Party on the Portrayal of Women in the Media.
History and Heartburn: the Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978.
"What do I wear for a Hurricane?" Women in Australian Film, Television, Video and Radio Industries.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/bibi.html   (696 words)

  
 VINTAGE VIDEO / A Hot 100 From Out of the Past
Hit women do battle against lesbian assassins in this wonderfully tasteless wallow in nonstop sex and violence.
No film better captured the ethos and dreams of the pre-AIDS '80s than this Adrian Lyne work -- the ``42nd Street'' of its era.
A wonderful, wacky James Toback film, with Harvey Keitel as an aspiring concert pianist who moonlights as a leg-breaker for his loan-shark father.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/10/05/PK13674.DTL   (696 words)

  
 George Romero
Romero’s films, it is implied, affirm the dignity and strength of women by representing them in “positive” cultural roles and by overturning the traditional binaries of passive and active, foolish and intelligent.
In the opening scene of George Romero’s 1978 film Martin, a teenage sexual psychopath kills and drinks the blood of a young woman in her sleeper train compartment during a struggle that is protracted, messy and far from one-sided.
Once inside the house and safely in the care of the film’s black hero, Ben (Duane Jones), Barbra (Judith O’Dea) is quickly reduced to helpless catatonia.
www.cult-media.com /issue3/Aharper.htm   (6741 words)

  
 Anatomy of a Kidnapping: Bruno Barreto's Four Days in September (Film Journal International, January 1998)
is an unusual film for Barreto whose previous work includes the classic Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1978), as well as Gabriella (1983), The Story of Fausta (1988), A Show of Force (1990) and seven other feature films, most of them stories about women.
The film is very loosely based on a memoir (O que e isso, companheiro?, not yet translated into English) by Fernando Gabeira, one of the kidnappers, who is now a liberal politician in Brazil.
Although this film includes a memorable female character -- Maria, played by the talented Fernanda Torres -- the story is told from the perspective of many characters who represent three distinctly different points of view.
users.rcn.com /mgarcia.interport/fa_films/bruno.html   (1069 words)

  
 The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Most remembered for its boot-camp hijinks, Private Benjamin is actually more of an outgrowth of the independent-women films of the late '70s than it is a descendant of slapstick, fish-out-of-water comedies.
One of this film's taglines was: "They're young, they're in love and they kill people." (answer)
Tupac's Script To Become A Feature Film from USAToday.com
www.imdb.com   (1069 words)

  
 Rabbit Test (1978) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rabbit Test is a 1978 comedy motion picture about a nobody guy who rockets to celebrity status after a one-night stand leaves him pregnant.
Directed by Joan Rivers, Rabbit Test is about a night class teacher - Lionel Carpenter (played by Billy Crystal)- who has bad luck with women, remaining a virgin until his brash cousin Danny returns from the army and sets him up with the only woman desperate enough to sleep with him.
This film may have initiated the fanfiction term MPreg.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rabbit_Test_(1978)   (520 words)

  
 Australian Film Bibliography
Australian Film Commission and the National Working Party on the Portrayal of Women in the Media.
Australian Film 1978-1992: A Survey of Theatrical Features.
Identification, Gender and Genre in Film: The Case of Shame with Shame: The Screenplay by Beverly Blankenship and Michael Brindley.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/bibi.html   (520 words)

  
 Australian Film Bibliography
Australian Film Commission and the National Working Party on the Portrayal of Women in the Media.
Australian Film 1978-1992: A Survey of Theatrical Features.
Identification, Gender and Genre in Film: The Case of Shame with Shame: The Screenplay by Beverly Blankenship and Michael Brindley.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/bibi.html   (933 words)

  
 10° International Women Film Festival: documentary films competition
Her films have received over 30 international awards including an Oscar in 1978 for the short film I'll Find a Way, a remarkable and sensitive portrait of a 9-year-old girl with spina bifida.
"The film is an open letter that answers her birthmother's question, "Oh, my God, how did you find me? " with honesty and dignity, recognizing the dedication involved in trying to find a birth parent and the maturity and compassion needed for a reunion".
Before joining the National Film Board of Canada, Beverly worked on the Emmy-award winning programmess Nova and Zoom, for the PBS flagship station WGBH-TV in Boston.
www.festivalcinemadelledonne.com /2003/edbirth.htm   (933 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Maggie Smith
She has also enjoyed a successful film career, winning Academy Awards for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978).
Dame Maggie Smith, born in 1934, British stage and film actress, particularly noted for her comedic performances.
In 1994 she won an Evening Standard Award, her fifth, for Three Tall Women by American playwright Edward Albee.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580135/Maggie_Smith.html   (279 words)

  
 Review: Dawn of the Dead (2004)
As zombie films go, this one is a small step beneath Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, which was darker and creepier, but it's still a respectable effort.
One of the things that annoyed me about the original Dawn of the Dead - and it's a seeming requirement of horror films - is the flagrant stupidity exhibited by the characters.
The 1978 movie left open the possibility that the outbreak was confined to a geographical area.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/d/dawn_dead2004.html   (934 words)

  
 Bob Burns Web Site Career Credits
DRIVE Theatrical film (1995) in "Walter, the Einstein Frog" sequence.
RESEARCH OR Make-up of casualty wounds having to pass approval by Surgeon General prior to filming (1958-1960)
Constructed props, make-ups and costumes and appeared in segments of SHOCK THEATER weekly film presentations
bobburns.mycottage.com /credits.htm   (845 words)

  
 Ultimate Dynasty: Film Database
Time Trackers (1989), Falcon Crest (1989), Dream West (1986), North and South (1985), Dynasty (1981-1983), Evening in Byzantium (1978), Birds Do It, Bees Do It (1975), Hot L Baltimore (1975), Incident at Vichy (1973), The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973), Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969), Sullivan's Empire (1967)
(1969), Subterfuge (1969), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Warning Shot (1967), Hard Time for Princess (1964), The Road to Hong Kong (1962), Esther and the King (1960), Seven Thieves (1960), Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
(1974), Between Friends (1973), The Young Lawyers (1969), Then Came Bronson (1969), A Hatful of Rain (1968), Stranger on the Run (1967), The Happening (1967), The Bible (1966), The Idol (1966), Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), Wild Seed (1965)
www.ultimatedynasty.net /filmdatabase.html   (845 words)

  
 Films de Femmes
Since its beginning, back in 1978, the festival’s main aim was to “…promote films directed by women on subjects of their choice, and to allow for a better understanding of the situation and evolution of women and their cinema in each country represented”.
Today, the Créteil-based Films de Femmes is unquestionably one of the most important festivals of women’s film in the world.
She will talk on the festival and its achievements, and talk about the major significance of women in French cinema.
www.sigov.si /uzp/city/98/film.html   (845 words)

  
 Complete TOC for all Minerva Center Periodicals
REVIEWS: Marrs and Read, Everywoman's Guide to Military Service reviewed by Ann Glynn; Shangold and Mirkin, The Complete Sports Medicine Book for Women reviewed by LTC Patricia H. Jernigan, USA; FILM REVIEW: CATCH 36-24-36 reviewed by Joan Jordan.
COVER STORY: An Open Letter to Virginia Military Istitute from VADM William P. Lawrence, USN (Ret), Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, 1978-1981.
ANNOUNCEMENTS about Three Years Behind the Mast, Sistership, Vietnam Generation: A Journal of Recent History and Contemporary Issues, The Women's Overseas Service League, "Remember the Ladies" workshop.
www.h-net.msu.edu /~minerva/toc.html   (5689 words)

  
 Labor-Related Films in the Library of Congress Collection: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, LibraryofCongress)
WITH BABIES AND BANNERS:STORY OF THE WOMEN'S EMERGENCY BRIGADE FDA 5645 Women's Labor History Film Project, 1978.
Educational film depicting the events and policies of the New Deal.
Documentary about 8 women in Willmar, Minnesota who went on strike because of employment discrimination.
www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/findaid/labor.html   (3129 words)

  
 Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Speaker On: Celebrity, Arts / Music / Drama, Women's Issues
Eventually moving to Los Angeles with her second husband, a playwright, Aghdashloo has been socially active in raising awareness of women’s issues, especially in Iran, where the Islamic government has repressed women for decades.
Her powerless character in the film is a struggle familiar to Aghdashloo, who made her screen debut in celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami’s 1977 film The Report — a movie that remains banned in Iran.
The tragic film revolves around a lower-middle-class Iranian immigrant family in conflict with a down-and-out young American woman; Aghdashloo provides the delicate fulcrum on which the hostility of House of Sand and Fog is balanced.
www.speaking.com /speakers/shohrehaghdashloo.html   (341 words)

  
 Martin (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin is a 1976 horror film from director George A. Romero in which John Amplas stars as the title character, who sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood.
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1977 and was released in US cinemas on 7 July 1978.
The tone of the film is sad and filled with longing and unfulfilled desire--rather different for the traditional vampire movie, cliches of which are parodied in Martin's dreams and in the mock-silent-film scene where Martin terrorises Cuda in a children's playground.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_(movie)   (361 words)

  
 general literary studies 1
"The Purloined Lantern: Maoist Semiotics and Public Discourse in Early PRC Film and Drama." In Braester, Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China.
"The Non-Official Magazine Today and the Younger Generation's Ideals for a New Literature." In J. Kinkley, ed., After Mao: Chinese Literature and Society, 1978-1981.
This paper seeks to reveal how Yang Xu, like other contemporary Chinese women writers in Manzhouguo, was driven by the May Fourth ideals of women's emancipation that dominated social discourse in the Republic of China during the 1920s to defy the conservative cultural aspirations of the Japanese colonial regime.]
mclc.osu.edu /rc/studbib.htm   (361 words)

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