IF IT wasn't so misguided there'd be something almost touching about Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin's vision for a vastly expanded state-owned industrial empire. It will, he says, thrive on massive infrastructure spending by the state in the next two decades.
(ARA) - Last year, the American Film Institute voted and came up with the Top Five movies. Critics debated and movie lovers everywhere weighed in, but many people found that they'd never seen the top five movies of all time.
DVD Fall of the Roman Empire, Collector's Edition; three/two discs; The Miriam Collection/Genius Products; $39.99/$24.95 No one could ever accuse producer Samuel Bronston of thinking small.
No one could ever accuse producer Samuel Bronston of thinking small. After the Medieval Spanish epic El Cid , Bronston was inspired, according to a making-of documentary, by Gibbon's famous history to make The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), a three-hour-plus spectacle filmed not in Panavision but Ultra-Panavision.
ITHACA †Last Sunday night, when Jeff Long learned his Ithaca men's lacrosse team had been pitted against NESCAC Champion Williams College in an NCAA Division III second-round game, Long admitted he didn't know anything about the Ephs.
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As a visual work, thanks to director Anthony Mann's brilliant images and dynamic staging of scenes, and producer Samuel Bronston's spare-no-expenses approach to set and costume design, "The Fall of the Roman Empire" is splendid. Scene after scene leaves a viewer marveling at the richness of the imagery and vibrancy of the spectacle of ancient Rome.
Some delightful children's shorts have come to DVD recently. One is the all-time Albert Lamorisse classic The Red Balloon, a delicately charming, wordless tale of
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