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Movie reviews from the '70s
Cinemascope movies cropped for TV, Rossellini visits UCSD, Shepherd's San Diego movie house survey, Vincente Minnelli comes to La Jolla, the Reader's rating system
Crop Failure
The most obvious damage done to a movie that has been trimmed, cropped, to fit the TV space, is to the composition of the images. It is like a museum trying to fit a painting of The Last Supper into a tight squeeze space by knocking off three or four disciples from each end of the picture.
September 13, 1973 | Read full article
Old Movie Critics Never Die
I do not care if UCSD students ever get the chance to see Fists of Fury or The Eyes of Hell. Presumably, college students must sit still for enough froth and trivia during their classes all week long without needing to be bothered with more of it when they go to a movie.
November 1, 1973 | Read full article
Movie Houses I Have Known
It was probably incorrect to expect anything from this quaint place, with its church-pew seats and windows at the back of the auditorium; one assumed a certain intellectual standing simply because its snack bar dispenses items like guava juice and oatmeal-date bars.
December 13, 1973 | Read full article
Shoot If You Must This Old Grey Head
The complainer expects to be in agreement: he is certain that there is some chicanery afoot if his innate common sense clashes with some idea he encounters: and he is undoubtedly the one in Humanities classrooms across the country who declares out loud, citing the fusty wrong-headedness of their ideas, that Plato was an ostrich, Augustine a bat, Strindberg a pig, and Hemingway a lot of bull.
August 29, 1974 | Read full article
The Courtship of Liza's Father
When chased down by a question on his working methods — what does he try for in the way of color? In the way of camerawork? — Vincente Minnelli, showing as much wonderment as any onlooker, held up the durable deflection device, "It's all intuitive." In short, the billowy prestige due to movie directors, as a class, was hauled down and folded up, like a sail.
September 5, 1974 | Read full article
Seeing Stars and Spots
I am convinced that the entire population will see The Sting, Chinatown, and The Exorcist regardless of anything I might print about them, and that is fine with me; I wish everyone saw more — or at least more varied — movies, and not fewer.
November 14, 1974 | Read full article
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Movie reviews from the '70s
Cinemascope movies cropped for TV, Rossellini visits UCSD, Shepherd's San Diego movie house survey, Vincente Minnelli comes to La Jolla, the Reader's rating system
Movie reviews from the '70s
Cinemascope movies cropped for TV, Rossellini visits UCSD, Shepherd's San Diego movie house survey, Vincente Minnelli comes to La Jolla, the Reader's rating system
Crop Failure
The most obvious damage done to a movie that has been trimmed, cropped, to fit the TV space, is to the composition of the images. It is like a museum trying to fit a painting of The Last Supper into a tight squeeze space by knocking off three or four disciples from each end of the picture.
September 13, 1973 | Read full article
Old Movie Critics Never Die
I do not care if UCSD students ever get the chance to see Fists of Fury or The Eyes of Hell. Presumably, college students must sit still for enough froth and trivia during their classes all week long without needing to be bothered with more of it when they go to a movie.
November 1, 1973 | Read full article
Movie Houses I Have Known
It was probably incorrect to expect anything from this quaint place, with its church-pew seats and windows at the back of the auditorium; one assumed a certain intellectual standing simply because its snack bar dispenses items like guava juice and oatmeal-date bars.
December 13, 1973 | Read full article
Shoot If You Must This Old Grey Head
The complainer expects to be in agreement: he is certain that there is some chicanery afoot if his innate common sense clashes with some idea he encounters: and he is undoubtedly the one in Humanities classrooms across the country who declares out loud, citing the fusty wrong-headedness of their ideas, that Plato was an ostrich, Augustine a bat, Strindberg a pig, and Hemingway a lot of bull.
August 29, 1974 | Read full article
The Courtship of Liza's Father
When chased down by a question on his working methods — what does he try for in the way of color? In the way of camerawork? — Vincente Minnelli, showing as much wonderment as any onlooker, held up the durable deflection device, "It's all intuitive." In short, the billowy prestige due to movie directors, as a class, was hauled down and folded up, like a sail.
September 5, 1974 | Read full article
Seeing Stars and Spots
I am convinced that the entire population will see The Sting, Chinatown, and The Exorcist regardless of anything I might print about them, and that is fine with me; I wish everyone saw more — or at least more varied — movies, and not fewer.
November 14, 1974 | Read full article
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