Paris. The perfect romantic setting for a funny, charming "opposites attract" comedy romp. Especially when the attracting opposites are Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The Oscar.-winning stars (and real-life husband and wife) play a breezy newspaper reporter and a no-nonsense fashion buyer who share a nasty case of hate at first sight. But he takes a second look when she goes from grim to glamorous in one magical afternoon at Elizabeth Arden's Beauty Salon. Will l'amour triumph! It can't miss with Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor and Maurice Chevalier lending Cupid a hand. watch
Paris. The perfect romantic setting for a funny, charming "opposites attract" comedy romp. Especially when the attracting opposites are Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The Oscar-winning stars (and real-life husband and wife) play a breezy newspaper reporter and a no-nonsense fashion buyer who share a nasty case of hate at first sight. But he takes a second look when she goes from grim to glamorous in one magical afternoon at Elizabeth Arden's Beauty Salon. Will l'amour triumph! It can't miss with Thelma Ritter, Eva Gabor and Maurice Chevalier lending Cupid a hand. watch
The Movie at the End of the World is a compilation documentary about the life and work of the late North Dakota poet, Thomas McGrath, threaded with a number of video poems. Originally released in 1981, it was remastered on the occasion of the poet's death in 1990. Film clips and video poems are by Les Navros, Lloyd Ritter, Patricia Olson, Leo Hurwitz and Dan Pullen. Nationally telecast on PBS and winner of Best Language Film at Birmingham Film Festival, it was directed by Mike Hazard and Paul Burtness. Looked at in one way, the program is divided in three parts, and each part can be seen as an illumination of a line from the poet's epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend: 'History is the labyrinth, labor the low high road, art the curved arrow to our common heaven.' The first part is about making bread, the second earning it, and the third is haunted by the hunger for it." -- Mike Hazard, director. To McGrath, 'the end of the world' seems a multiple ironic pun on the remoteness of Nor watch
