Word: camera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reputation for tolerance, half the Cabinet had insisted on seeing, and in effect censoring, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Affairs), based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before it won a permit "for adults only." For French adults, that is. Vadim was denied an export permit, lest his picture corrupt less civilized foreigners...
German-made Tower is technically first-rate, precisioned as a Mercedes, and German-born Actress Palmer is a suave, consummate performer. The camera ranges so fluently through her glass prison it seems a pity that the action it catches is mostly senseless Sturm und Drang...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn, as a Roman Catholic nun who decides that it is love of self rather than love of God that has sent her to her calling, is too antiseptic to come alive. The story, though, is a natural, and the camera work in Africa dazzlingly beautiful...
...play the omniscient journalist with hindsight. What he remembers best is the first Russian prisoner he saw: a frightened, ignorant peasant reduced to blubbering tears by the offer of a cigarette from his Finnish captors, and later brought to hysterical laughter when he realized that Mydans' camera was not a deadly weapon. Then, having been decent to.the prisoner, a Finnish major turned to Mydans and, between clenched teeth, assured him: "Russians are pigs...
...Sense of God. Mydans' mind is itself a kind of camera. He writes in pictures that illustrate life in swift, touching anecdotes and impressions: the wedding procession that moved along an Italian road on foot while up ahead, U.S. troops were in deadly battle with a German rearguard; or the terrible day when he was caught in a Japanese earthquake and watched in horror as rescuers sawed through the arm of a pinned victim. He recalls with fine comic effect two G.I.s in top hats putting on a mock duel in the Italian moonlight, and he remembers the combat...