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A BIT MORE O' THIS 'N' THAT!!! •X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES (1963), •THE SWIMMER (1968), •WHO'S ON FIRST? (1945), • HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THREE MINUTES FLAT (1980), • FLOATING FREE (1977), • A-DUCKING THEY DID GO (1939), • POWERS OF TEN: A FILM DEALING WITH THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE AND THE EFFECT OF ADDING ANOTHER ZERO (1978), • X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES (1963)
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A BIT MORE O' THIS 'N' THAT!!! •X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES (1963), •THE SWIMMER (1968), •WHO'S ON FIRST? (1945), • HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THREE MINUTES FLAT (1980), • FLOATING FREE (1977), • A-DUCKING THEY DID GO (1939), • POWERS OF TEN: A FILM DEALING WITH THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE AND THE EFFECT OF ADDING ANOTHER ZERO (1978), • X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES (1963)
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with
(1968)
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story. Merrill is clearly driven by inner forces. His friends are baffled by his determination to complete this quest, "swimming home", which we immediately intuitively understand. His passion is monumental, as are his
oblivion and decades of neglect of those he holds most dear. His odyssey leads from love and power to despair and ruin.
Frank Perry's screen adaptation of the achingly sad John Cheever short story gets the tone of Cheever's story just right. There have been countless strong and powerful films made around the theme of suburban loneliness, and this movie belongs to that genre. There's something so poignant about the idea that someone can exist in a world that's manufactured for the sole purpose of providing its inhabitants with luxury, pleasure and convenience, and still be miserable. You'd think people would have gotten the point by now, and figured out that privilege, wealth and materialism have virtually nothing to do with ultimate happiness, but if our own consumerist culture is any indication, they haven't.
What helps "The Swimmer" to stand out from other similarly-themed films is the way the story is told. It's only through the reactions of others that we begin
to sense what's wrong with Burt Lancaster's character. To us, he looks the picture of middle-aged robustness and health. Lancaster became a much better actor as he aged, and he gives a wonderful performance here, as his bravado and macho virility (the strutting and preening of a man on top of the world) slowly dissolves into a lost insecurity, until the film's final devastating moments leave him as forlorn as a baby. Prod Coys: Columbia Pictures Corporation; Horizon Pictures. Dirs: Frank Perry; Sydney Pollack (uncredited). Prod Roger Lewis, Frank Perry. Wr: John Cheever (story), Eleanor Perry (scr). Music by MARVIN HAMLISCH. Phot: David L. Quaid. Cast: BURT LANCASTER. I WHO AM, WHO AM I? 17 mins. ALC
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the Summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in each pool his interactions tell his life story. Merrill is clearly driven by inner forces. His friends are baffled by his determination to complete this quest, "swimming home", which we immediately intuitively understand. His passion is monumental, as are his oblivion and decades of neglect of those he holds most dear. His odyssey leads from love and power to despair and ruin.
Frank Perry's screen adaptation of the achingly sad John Cheever short story gets the tone of Cheever's story just right. There have been countless strong and powerful films made around the theme of suburban loneliness, and this movie belongs to that genre. There's something so poignant about the idea that someone can exist in a world that's manufactured for the sole purpose of providing its inhabitants with luxury, pleasure and convenience, and still be miserable. You'd think people would have gotten the point by now, and figured out that privilege, wealth and materialism have virtually nothing to do with ultimate happiness, but if our own consumerist culture is any indication, they haven't.
What helps "The Swimmer" to stand out from other similarly-themed films is the way the story is told. It's only through the reactions of others that we begin to sense what's wrong with Burt Lancaster's character. To us, he looks the picture of middle-aged robustness and health. Lancaster became a much better actor as he aged, and he gives a wonderful performance here, as his bravado and macho virility (the strutting and preening of a man on top of the world) slowly dissolves into a lost insecurity, until the film's final devastating moments leave him as forlorn as a baby. Prod Coys: Columbia Pictures Corporation; Horizon Pictures. Dirs: Frank Perry; Sydney Pollack (uncredited). Prod Roger Lewis, Frank Perry. Wr: John Cheever (story), Eleanor Perry (scr). Music by MARVIN HAMLISCH. Phot: David L. Quaid. Cast: BURT LANCASTER. I WHO AM, WHO AM I? 17 mins. ALC
plus
•WHO'S ON FIRST?
(1945)
One of the most famous baseball comedy routines ever enacted was this humourous exchange between BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO. The skit was originally done on the radio live (each & every time) until the legendary duo later included it on THE NAUGHTY NINETIES compilation.
The general premise behind the exchange has Costello, a peanut vendor named Sebastian Dinwiddle, talking to Abbott who is Dexter Broadhurt, the manager of the mythical St. Louis Wolves. However, before Costello can get behind the plate, Abbott wants to make sure he knows everyone's name on the team. Oooh boy! Prod. Co: Universal 8 (Castle Films). Cast: BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO. 8 mins. RM
and
• HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THREE MINUTES FLAT
(1980)This charming little short film reconstructs the history of the world as an ever rising building -- generation after generation building on top of each other, with notable moments standing out (at one point during the Dark Ages section a man in a turban says "praise be to Allah! I've invented the Zero!" "What?" "Nothing, nothing." and then rolling on instantly.) It's clearly a product of the Cold War era -- it ends with a musroom cloud exploding at the very top - but not before everybody joins hand in a global "circle dance"! Multi-award nominated and winning cartoon History of the World in Three Minutes Flat. 1981 Academy Awards, USA: Oscar "Best Short Film, Animated" (Nominated); 1981 Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Berlin Bear "Best Short Film" (Won); Interfilm Awards: Otto Dibelius Film Award Forum of New Cinema; 1981 Genie Awards: Genie Best Theatrical Short (Nominated); 1980 Ottawa International Animation Festival: OIAF Award Films Shorter Than 3 Minutes (Won). Dir: Michael Mills. 4 mins. ALC
• FLOATING FREE
(1977)This short documentary actually feels more like a music video. The event is the 1977 World Frisbee Championships, and the venue is the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The film moves from event to event, showcasing Ultimate, Guts, Human Freestyle, and finally, the Frisbee Dogs. The first Frisbee dog was Ashley Whippet, who was such an accomplished Frisbee catcher that he was invited to appear at the 1974 World Frisbee Championships, (which had previously only been for humans only!) The music is very cool, appropriate and well selected. Prod: Jerry Butts. 11 mins.
ALC
• A-DUCKING THEY DID GO
(1939)
After unsuccessfully stealing a watermelon, Stooges Moe, Larry and Curly get jobs as salesmen for the Canvas Back Duck Club and end up selling phony memberships to the Mayor and the entire Police Department. When they discover that there are no ducks at the Duck Club, Curly steals a flock of domesticated ducks but it turns out the ducks belong to local farmer and the boys leave in a hail of buckshot. Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation. Prod: Jules White. Dir: Del Lord. Wr: Andrew Bennison. Phot: LUCIEN BALLARD. Ed: Charles Nelson. Cast: CURLY HOWARD, LARRY FINE, MOE HOWARD,
Lynton Brent (Blackie), Wheaton Chambers ((Doyle), Vernon Dent (Vegetarian in hallway), William Irving (Cop hit by melon), Bud Jamison (Police Chief), Cy Schindell (Fruit vendor), Victor Travers (Club member). 17 mins. NFVLS
• POWERS OF TEN:
A FILM DEALING WITH THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE AND THE EFFECT OF ADDING ANOTHER ZERO
(1978)
An entirely new colour production of Charles and Ray Eamse's "A ROUGH SKETCH FOR A PROPOSED FILM DEALING WITH THE POWERS OF TEN AND THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE" (1968). Probably the best known of the Eames Films, Powers of Ten refines and
extends the journey of its predecessor by presenting it in color and in great scientific detail. Starting at a one meter square image of a picnic, the camera moves 10 times further away every 10 seconds, reaching to the edge of the universe; then the journey is reversed, going 10 times closer each ten seconds, ultimately reaching the interior of an atom. With an image, a narration and a distance register, it gives a clue to the relative size of things. Filmmakers: Alex Funke, Michael Wiener, Ron Rozzelle. Music: ELMER BERNSTEIN. Narrator: Philip Morrison. 8 mins. ALC
and featuring:
• X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES
(1963),
Prod Coys: Alta Vista Productions, American International Pictures (AIP). Prod: Samuel Z. Arkoff (e.p), James H. Nicholson (e.p.), Bartlett A. Carre (assoc p), Roger Corman. Dir: Roger Corman. Wr: Robert Dillon, Ray Russell (story). Mus: LES BAXTER. Phot: Floyd Crosby. Ed: Anthony Carras. Special Effects: Butler-Glouner Inc. Cast: RAY MILLAND, Diana Van der Vlis, HAROLD J. STONE, JOHN HOYT, DON RICKLES, MORRIS ANKRUM, DICK MILLER. 79 mins. NFVLS
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