![]() ![]() In the 1930s, the Company was involved in film shoots, providing aircraft, crews and technical consultancy in exchange for on-screen visibility. But is has also supported it by working with film professionals. WITH: Craig Sheffer (Henri Guillaumet), Elizabeth McGovern (Noelle Guillaumet), Tom Hulce (Saint-Exupery) and Val Kilmer (Jean Mermoz).Air France has always supported cinema by screening films inflight.The first such (An American in Paris) took place as early as 1951 aboard a Lockheed Constellation between New York and Paris. ![]() At Sony Theaters Lincoln Square, IMAX Theater, 1998 Broadway, at 68th Street. Annaud director of photography, Robert Fraisse edited by Louise Rubacky production designer, Ian Thomas released by Sony Pictures Classics. WINGS OF COURAGE Produced and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud written by Alain Godard and Mr. IMAX 3-D is a gimmick, but "Wings of Courage" makes it a hugely entertaining one. Once those goggles are put on, the room is filled with people who look like mutants from "The Fly." The theater is dizzyingly high, to accommodate the 80-by-100-foot screen. The novelty of this moviegoing experience is what counts, and the circuslike atmosphere is especially enticing to children. Wear them wrong, and they will beat up your sinuses or your forehead. Of course it's not, at least until those headsets turn into something more confortable. The question whether 3-D is the future of movies is completely wrong-headed. "Wings of Courage" opens today at the Sony Lincoln Square. "You can't see an ant." Though the dialogue is nothing special, it takes on an eerie cast when Henri's inner thoughts are heard through one side of the headphones only, as if he were whispering in the ear of each viewer. If he hasn't crashed, he's walking." Saint-Exupery flies overhead searching for him. "The Andes don't give men back," he warns Henri Guillaumet, a flier set to make a run from Argentina to France.Īs Henri drags himself forward, he has sepia-toned fantasies of Noelle, who says: "I know him. Mermoz is a hero whose picture is on matchboxes, posters and cigarette packs. Val Kilmer has a tiny part as Jean Mermoz, a role that sets up the atmosphere of the period. Tom Hulce plays the French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery, although here he is seen not as the author of "The Little Prince" but as the head of Aeropostale, the company that moves the mail between South America and France. And when a plane lands, the camera seems to be attached to the rear wheels. When aviators go to a nightclub, viewers might step into the space between the table in the foreground and the couple doing a tango in the rear. In the very first scene, a biplane seems to sail off the screen and hover over the heads of the audience. Based on real events, it tells of daredevil aviators flying mail over the Andes in 1930, but the tale takes second place to the way it is told. The first fiction movie made for IMAX 3-D (the format that makes everyone wear oversized, goofy-looking goggles), this 40-minute film plays to the strengths of its 3-D technique. "Wings of Courage" is a swooping, old-fashioned adventure tale that uses flashy newfangled technology. ![]()
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