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The Persistence of Memory

Jaime Lubin | Posted 05.21.2013 | New York
Read More: Altadena, Pierre Boulez, Cornelia Street Cafe, Bad Role Models and What I Learned From Them, Polly Frost, King Vidor, The Fold, Gene Tierney, Richard Feynman, New York News
Jaime Lubin

Near the end of "Bad Role Models," Frost wonders, "Is life more like a dream, or a movie?" When immersed in the quick-paced cinematic atmosphere Frost creates onstage, I'm inclined to say "movie."

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Actor Jean Dujardin Speaks Up About Keeping Silent

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.24.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Debbie Reynolds, Douglas Fairbanks, Marshall Fine, The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius, King Vidor, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jean Dujardin, Silent Film, The Crowd, Cannes Film Festival, Berenice Bejo.F.W. Murnau, Jean Dujardin Interview, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

M0dern audiences have no relationship with the silent films with which cinematic history began. That makes The Artist perhaps the gutsiest new release of the year-end season.

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011 | Arts
Read More: Anna Netrebko, King Vidor, Hitler, Napoleon, War and Peace, Turin, Natasha, Sergei Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Norman Rose, Richard Pevear, Rostovs, Metropolitan Opera, Sergei Bondarchuk, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, NBC Opera Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera, Vilcek Foundation, Bolshoi Opera, Kiev, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Nino Rota, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, General Kutuzov, Prague Spring, Andrei Bolkonsky, Moscow, D. W. Griffith, The Crowd, Pierre Bezuhov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Constance Garnett, The Big Parade, Arts News
Norman MacAfee

When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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Three Underappreciated Silent Film Classics

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Paul Leni, Rafael Sabatini, George C. Tilyou, Film Noir, Eleanor Boardman, Swashbuckler, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Mighty Wurlitzer, Sunset Boulevard, King Vidor, Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Clark Wilson, Kilruddery Silent Film Festival, John Wayne, Conrad Veidt, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Steeplechase Park, Victor Hugo, Maurice Ravel, Dennis James, The Man Who Laughs, Norma Desmond, A Cottage on Dartmoor, Coney Island, Stephen Horne, Anthony Asquith, Wall-E, John Gilbert, Castro Theater, The Magnificent, Bardelys Film, Arts News
George Heymont

The Bay Area has a large and loyal base of silent film fans, many of whom will descend on the Castro Theatre this weekend for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's annual winter event.

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The Remarkable Life and Career of Patricia Neal

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Martin Ritt, Lillian Hellman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Robert Osborne, Academy Awards, Tony Awards, King Vidor, Paul Newman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Audrey Hepburn, Hud, Patricia Neal, Blake Edwards, Shelley Winters, Turner Classic Movies, Greta Garbo, The Fountainhead, Robert Altman, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Beyond the Forest, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

What sets artists apart from stars and competent actors is originality and authenticity. Patricia Neal had these and other rare qualities in spades.

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On Kon Ichikawa

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Burmese Harp, The Makioka Sisters, Arthur Waley, An Actor?S Revenge, Japanese Cinema, Murasaki Shikibu, Roberto Rossellini, King Vidor, Elliott Stein, Tu Fu, The Tale of Genji, Li Po, The Rise of Louis XIV, Howard Hawks, Poetry, Entertainment News
Norman MacAfee

I saw The Burmese Harp in the mid-1960s, during the Vietnam war, and one specific image stayed with me, so much so that I have used it several times in poems.

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