Word: chiaroscuro
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...Welles made a wonderful movie -- an eccentric adaptation that is in spirit as true to Shakespeare's text as, say, Verdi's Otello. The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale of the ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text...
BEGOTTEN. The Authentic Weirdie award goes to this nightmare classic from E. Elias Merhige. In violent chiaroscuro images, the film tells a primal story of man's birth, torture, death and rebirth. This one-of-a-kind movie (you wouldn't want there to be more than one) makes Eraserhead seem like Ernest Saves Christmas...
...Nativity and Jesus' torture and death on Golgotha -- and some demented genius were there to film it. No names, no dialogue, no compromises, no exit. No apologies either, for Begotten is a spectacular one- of-a-kind (you wouldn't want there to be two), filmed in speckled chiaroscuro so that each image is a seductive mystery, a Rorschach test for the adventurous...
...WILBER/KENNY DAVERN: SUMMIT REUNION (Chiaroscuro). Rarely has a musical marriage been so harmonious. Wilber and Davern first teamed up back in the '70s in a highly touted jazz sextet called Soprano Summit. That group is no more, alas, but this studio rematch, featuring Wilber on soprano sax and Davern on clarinet, scales a new peak...
...There are no drawbacks whatsoever to this Concentration! You are expected to do nothing but look at beautiful pictures and listen to beautiful music. Lots of the books you buy are in color and look good on coffee tables. You will learn to bat around words like "plasticity," "chiaroscuro" and "tonality" without knowing precisely what they mean...