Word: camerawork
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This comedy of manners deserves plenty of goodwill. It was made in twelve days by 29-year-old Writer-Director-Editor Spike Lee. It displays the sumptuous camerawork of Ernest Dickerson. And it tries -- how hard it tries -- for something fresh. Nola Darling (Tracy Camila Johns) is a woman with a mind and libido of her own, much to the exasperation of three swains. Seems like Woody Allen territory, with two important exceptions: the characters and creative team are black, and just about everyone is straining as hard for effect as Nola is for the perfect orgasm. If the film...
...Vega 1's camerawork was a triumph of technology. While whipping by Halley's at a speed of 175,000 m.p.h. (relative to the comet), the spacecraft's TV cameras shot some 500 pictures in about three hours. Transmitted across 109 million miles of space, each picture took nine minutes to arrive in Moscow, where it was colored by computer to emphasize differences in brightness. The first images showed only the coma, the great cloud of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus, as a fuzzy, violet-fringed, blue-green ball with a yellow center. But in images that Vega...
...moment, though, occurs in the middle of the most famous line in the opera, the Marschallin's worldly wise "Ja, ja" as she withdraws from Octavian's life. Here the film leaps in mid-utterance from a long shot of Schwarzkopf to a close-up, calling attention to the camerawork when the viewer's concentration should be on the poignancy of the moment. Although the color has faded somewhat, giving the film an antique air, the picture is sharp and clear. All in all, this Rosenkavalier captures the feeling of being there, right down to the sight of Karajan making...
...grime of street life and bread lines, the sense of urgency haunting politicos on all sides of the spectrum, and the pervasive paranoia of a society in lethal flux. Wajda brings forth all the weapons in this director's arsenal, from a droning soundtrack to claustrophobic camerawork, to brilliant contrast between dark night and the torches of the security police. He succeeds masterfully in conveying the dreadful anxiety of living in a totalitarian regime. For if the government of the Terror lacks the 20th century's technological tools of surveillance, it nevertheless aspired to set neighbor spying on neighbor...
Outstanding camerawork creates a stifling sense of the claustrophobic tube which we share for more than two hours (and two months) with the sailors and their almost smell able dirty socks, As the camera shoots through the single corridor with amazing agility during an alarm, everyone in the audience cringes in fear of bumping his head. The memory of the swaying, dancing point of view presented in the opening scene's smoky, sexy cabaret makes the small interior space of that bar seem a veritable Astrodome...