Word: camerawork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Janus Films' latest import, which opened at the Exeter on Sunday, cannot help but enhance Bergman's reputation. It is a fine film, beautifully acted, with a superb scenario that develops into several sequences of unforgettable camerawork...
...direction tries to make up for the ennui which inevitably accompanies a waiting-for-the-kill plot by using devices intended to induce dread, mainly through unexpected camera angles and ominous background music. These are used too early and often to be effective, and leave the impression that the camerawork, which is otherwise very good, was done by a dwarf...
When Tracy is alone, and acting, he fills the screen quite well. The best spots in the movie, by far, are his beautiful conversations with the great fish. Tracy's clean handling of simple Hemingway humor mitigates the effect of some rather overspectacular camerawork, and his thoughtful poise while handling the fishing lines sustains a stretch of heavily philosophical narrative...
Telecasts begin at 7 p.m., with a 20-minute children's program featuring a plump woman in a peasant dress who sits in a chair telling a fairy story. Despite the dull camerawork, says Schorr, "she was a good actress and told the story warmly and simply." Next, in Schorr's monitoring, came an excerpt from a play called Red Clouds. The plot: a young man is torn between the revolutionary fervor of 1905 and the pious exhortations of his father, an Orthodox priest; he breaks away from the "evil influence of religion," curses his father, goes...
...know when to go." This time, after a few days of dalliance on the island of Burano, Hepburn goes home. Isa Miranda and young Gaetano Audiero help make Venice seem appealing, while MacDonald Parke and Jane Rose work hard as comic U.S. tourists. The Eastman Color and the camerawork by Jack Hildyard are superb...