Word: bullfighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie is an impressive job of editing (done by someone known only as Miriam), the editing is successful only when it is less obviously educational. The sequences of the raising of bulls and the training of matadors are more subtly included in a whole which is not a single bullfight but suggests its stages...
...bullfighting is an art, it is an art of motion; it doesn't lend itself well to overstatement or description of any static kind. Perhaps that is why there has been so much bad writing about bullfighting. Though not a bad film, Bullfight is somewhat pretentious: it tries to cover too much material and is edited skillfully but too much...
...Bullfight's pretentions should please Cambridge's legion of dining hall aficionados, for they are informational pretentions. As is written on the back of the short dictionary handed out at the door, "Bullfight is more than just a historical film; it is also a complete explanation of the meaning of bull-fighting." The complete explanation includes a sketchy history of the origins of bullfighting, a hasty description of the passes, together with brief shorts of most of this century's great matadors in action. These don't add much, except quantitatively, to the sum of the dining hall aficionado...
Instead, the bare stage was bathed in cobalt blue, and a giant, soft. flower ball was suspended above a bench, which represented Hans Sachs' shop. For the singing contest of Act III, W71eland tried a bullfight effect, with a 50-ft. high amphitheater surrounding a bright yellow ring, in which the singers performed...
...Bullfight (Janus Films) is a feature-length European-made documentary which brings to U.S. moviegoers all the blood and gore that Hollywood's code of ethics has denied them. Where Hollywood cameras have averted their gaze because of the bans on scenes of cruelty to animals, Bullfight stares fixedly and spares the viewer no detail of "the moment of truth...