Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
...good-will may yet prove literally disarming, especially if touched by a new spirit of community. This is an extremely attractive premise, and the production earns credit as fine didactic theatre: tonic but never argumentative. But it is also an important premise, and an arguable one. Like all didactic art, this Schweyk must stand on the force with which it advances its object lesson, and its simple success as theater...
...Parade's Gone By..., then, is a history of the American film from its genesis through a period of fertile collaborative art (roughly defined as the Silent period) to an eventual corruption, blamed on the shift of power from directors to producers and, most evil, the premature advent of the sound film...
During the 1900-1927 period treated in Brownlow's mammoth book, essentially one about the practical discovery of an art form, only the special optical effects were made artificially: actors did 90 per cent of their own stunts and those existing stuntmen were frequently killed. The many interviews that comprise two-thirds of the book share in common a true nostalgia for physical pain, for the ordeals involved in creating motion pictures honestly, unhampered by union restrictions, production supervision, and general professional laziness. Many statements, among them Nancy Carroll's memoir of shooting MGM's The Water Hole...
...American film into a major mass-produced consumer product thriving on standardization. They know they were great: that their best cameraman could light like Rembrandt and did, that their designers recreated detail with unsurpassed fidelity, most of all that the degree of collaborative improvisation they enjoyed produced high art and certainly America's greatest screen comedy. The joy with which they took chances, the willingness to sacrifice themselves, the interest in experimentation makes itself evident throughout the primary source material in the book, as does the sadness of having had these options slowly removed during the late...