Word: cameraworks
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...probable explanation for the omission is that there was no film available of those battles, and such was the deficiency of both NET documentaries. The producers were so smitten with their own camerawork in the fields and labor camps that they did not provide perspective on the problem-whether its cause lies in the economics of the industry, lack of unionization, inadequacy of the laws or failure to enforce them, or perhaps a combination of these factors. As a result, the exposes were neither as searing or as illuminating as Edward R. Murrow's 1960 CBS documentary on migrant...
More often than not, the camerawork reveals Nichols' ineptitude at choosing the right solution to filming a given scene: Benjamin's first exploration of the hotel room, opening doors and switching-on lights, is filmed in tight close-up, losing the potential of the quickly varying lighting effects, and inadvertantly showing us less of Benjamin's emotions than we would see were the camera ten feet further away (a similar scene is done to perfection in Truffaut's Soft Skin); a scene shot through a diving mask and one with six frame inserts of Mrs. Robinson's naked body...
...from several plays, Welles undermines traditional concepts of character, and his interpretation is dark: Falstaff, played brilliantly by Welles, ultimately becomes a serious and pathetic figure; Keith Baxter's Hal knows the inevitability of his future and its consequences earlier than one would think from reading the texts. Welles' camerawork and lighting have never been more extraordinary, or less self-conscious; the spine-chilling battle must, along with the shower sequence in Psycho and the Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin, be considered a supreme example of classical montage. Welles confounds one's normal sense of scene and over-all geography...
...Etranger is not a romantic story, and Visconti's slow and disciplined camera-work, though impeccably framed and lit, sometimes lacks the conviction to make it more than simply illustrative. Nonetheless, in the second half, beginning with the beach sequence, L'Etranger becomes a tour de force of subjective camerawork. It uses the zoom lens to juxtapose the moral postures of the different characters, and create a monstrous and disordered world around the anti-hero. Visconti must have chosen to film L'Etranger for strange reasons. He is plainly more interested in the dramatic mechanics of the preposterous trail then...
...Russell. Billion Dollar Brain is a provocative film, inventive and intelligent. In a period marked increasingly by acceptance of lack of craft (witness the reception of Mike Nichols' mediocre The Graduate), Billion Dollar Brain stands out as a low-level case-book of cinematic efficiency. Russell's camerawork is frequently tantamount to cutting: he will start on a medium shot if Michael Caine, swing up to a sign on a building, down to people leaving the building, and back to Michael Caine--all so quickly we might have seen four separate shots. The interior-exterior point-of-view cutting...