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Appreciation: Charlton Heston
time.com - 4/6/2008
Appreciation: Charlton Heston
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God is dead. Charlton Heston, the man-deity of movies, passed away yesterday in Los Angeles at 83. Heston didn't just play great roles, he imposingly, thrillingly embodied them. Moses (in The Ten Commandments ), Michelangelo ( The Agony and the Ecstasy ), Rodrigo Diaz ( El Cid ), Judah Ben-Hur in the Godzilla of Biblical epics: he slipped into these outsize figures as if into a second skin, ...

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Hollywood Elsewhere — ... existence and regardless of the film he is in, provides a more accurate definition of the cinema than films like Hiroshima mon amour or Citizen Kane , films whose aesthetic either ignores or repudiates Charlton Heston. Through him, mise en scene can confront the most intense of conflicts and settle them with the contempt of a god imprisoned, quivering with muted rage ." -- French film critic Michel Mourlet , from a 1960 Cahiers du Cinema essay, quoted today by both Time 's Richard Corliss and ...

Chalton Heston: 1924-2008
movies filter — ... Given that the man did much for the early Civil Rights movement (wait...I'm getting political...I'll leave that alone...). Anyway, given that the actor helped Orson Welles get one of his greatest pictures, "Touch of Evil" made, I like to think of Heston as a movie actor.   And I despised Michael Moore's treatment of the actor in "Bowling for Columbine."    So goodbye Mr. Heston. ...

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