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"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Showing posts with label Martha Coolidge. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Not a Pretty Picture (Martha Coolidge, 1976)







Cast: Michele Manenti, Martha Coolidge, James Carrington, Anne Mundstuk, Reed Birney, John Fedinatz, Diana Gold, Stephen Launer, Lilah McCarthy, Janet Morrison, Melissa Murdock, Hal Studer, Amy Wright. Screenplay: Martha Coolidge. Cinematography: Don Lenzer, Fred Murphy. Film editing: Martha Coolidge, Suzanne Pettit. Music: Tom Griffith. 


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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Lost in Yonkers (Martha Coolidge, 1993)

Mercedes Ruehl and Richard Dreyfuss in Lost in Yonkers

Cast: Mercedes Ruehl, Richard Dreyfuss, Irene Worth, Brad Stoll, Mark Damus, David Strathairn, Robert Miranda, Jack Laufer, Susan Merson, Illya Haase. Screenplay: Neil Simon, based on his play. Cinematography: Johnny E. Jensen. Production design: David Chapman. Film editing: Steven Cohen. Music: Elmer Bernstein. 

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