line is a very good entertainment boy it sure is i really felt as this movie
went along that i was getting to know the people in this village i knew that
if you walk down the right and turn the corner was a good test crooked finger
who is the scholar or you'd find
one of the other characters and it was almost like dutch magic realism it was
almost like one of those south american films in which though
the way that these wonderful people come in
extended family and they
table where they have their communal meals gets longer and longer as they
keep adopting
strays and children come back to the fold and so forth
was just one of the look at the sensibility that makes a film like this
this is a film that would be rejected in hollywood because will people get it
that the characters are kind of strange and weird
as opposed to embracing
folk tales and colorfulness
uh... you know i just wish somehow
i wish we could transport the mentality that makes a picture like that
out to hollywood one of the good things about the academy awards is that a movie
like this wins an oscar then people will sample it and they will find a very good
picture when we come back a salute
the gene kelly who died last week but for movie lovers will always be singing
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two men transformed the art of dancing in the movies one of them was fred a
stair and the other was gene kelly who died last week at the age of eighty
three
because they were in a class by themselves they were often compared in
the verdict was
a stair had more grace in a magical aura
and kelly was more realistic when he danced it was like a real guy
had suddenly been possessed with rhythm
here is the great scene for which kelly will always be remembered as from
singing in the rain made in nineteen fifty two
which many people feel is the greatest musical of all time
kelly was a gifted athlete and he used that ability in vince monelli's the
pirate made in nineteen forty eight
and co-starring judy garland
don't you dare take another step across that wire
don't you dare
manuela
manuela you don't mean that
kelly was the choreographer on most of his dance films and he pioneered the
idea of an extended ballet at the end of a film which cut loose from the
storyline
and floated free as a fantasy
here's part of the famous seventeen minute dance sequence at the end of an
american in paris
which won the oscar's best picture of nineteen fifty one
his partner here
is leslie caron
gene kelly was the greatest star of the golden age of m g m musicals which
began about nineteen forty five and ended
about ten years later
during that magical decade one technicolor masterpiece after another
came from the studio
and kelly was at the center of the best of them
later when his dancing days were winding down he became a director and had some
hits
including barbara strisand's hello dolly
but he will always be remembered as a dancer
and never be forgotten
for singing in the rain okay now let's take another look at the movies we
reviewed this week
two thumbs down jeans was a little slow going down but it came down alright for
broken arrow the big budget thriller about terrorists
who steal a nuclear bomb
two big thumbs down very big thumbs way down for black sheep a movie which is
very much in the running for worst film of the year gene
walked out i wish i had
two thumbs up though for beautiful girls the bittersweet tale of men whose
search for the perfect woman destroys their relationships
we especially like natalie portman as the kid next door
two thumbs up for the backstage theatrical lore and kenneth bran as a
midwinter's tale
the troop of beleaguered actors trying to stage hamlet on christmas eve
and finally two thumbs up for antonia's line a very special film from howland
about a strong independent woman in the four generations
of her extended family so antonia's line a midwinter's tale and beautiful girls
that's it for this week next week we'll be back with reviews of more new movies
including city hall starting out but you know john cusack and bridget fonda
in a thriller about murder and corruption in new york city
got a shootout in williamsburg
there's two deaths connected and that's all i know
that's all i want to know and also
happy gilmore starring adam sandler is a failed hockey player
becomes the celebrated bad boy of the professional golf circuit
the price is wrong bob
that's next week and until then
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