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DAVID ROBINSON writes about the rediscovery and restoration of the 1922 BEYOND THE ROCKS, which uniquely teamed the superstars of the moment, Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Based on a torrid romance by the English novelist Elinor Glyn, it turns out to be less than a masterpiece.
ALBERTA MARLOWE recalls the free-living and free-loving bohemian trio who in the late twenties established the Pool group and published the independent film journal CLOSE UP as a base for original and unfettered writing on cinema.