Word: calmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention, from Dufyesque silhouettes of color to gaudy calendar-art cliches, from cautious realist scrutiny to Warholian transcriptions of holiday-snapshot cropping. Sometimes the scene is light and sun-drenched, sometimes it is drowned in bloom and speckles, or elided by pastel smudges, or darkened into an eerie nocturnal calm. There is no favorite medium; Bartlett uses gouache, watercolor, ink, pastel, crayon, oil and pencil with almost equal facility...
...hostage takers became the magistrate and the jury." That seemed to be precisely what the leader of the criminal gang, Defendant Georges + Courtois, 38, had in mind when he demanded that television cameras be brought into the courtroom. "You have been judging me," the gaunt Courtois said with icy calm. "Now it is our turn to judge you." Waving a pistol and smoking a cigar, he launched into a lengthy harangue, warning that the "slightest attempt" by police to intervene would mean bloodshed. His words were quickly broadcast to spellbound TV viewers all over France...
...feuds are not just intellectual bickering, but rather are battles against power structures that perpetuate inequalities and injustices in the social order. These are battles to politicize legal education, to inject debate about illegitimate hierarchy and oppression, about minorities and women and their relation to the law, into the calm logic of legal analysis--in more concrete terms, to get a Black professor onto the Law School faculty...
Return often seems like an experiment in extremes. Although this most obviously involves the nature of the plot itself, it also includes the cinematography. At sporadic points throughout the film, cinematographer Janos Zsombolyai presents us with contained scenes of abstract images. Although the calm, picturesque vignettes of nature eventually become somewhat cloying, Zsombolyai's shots of travel along a highway are innovative and exciting. Familiar lines and lights and shapes speed by blended and confused. Simple visual clues are transformed into the physical sensation of actual movement. Unfortunately, these sections of the film are poorly integrated into the film...
...McCarthy '89 didn't get a chance to see the ghost since she was sitting with her back to the mysterious woman, but she agreed with Wong's account of the night. "It was a really mellow atmosphere. Audris suddenly stopped the conversation and told us, in a calm voice, that the ghost was there...