Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claustrophobic framing suggests "plan-sequence," sketches of shots realized by the camera, and there are no traces of the nouvelle vague hand-held technique of Truffaut's films through Soft Skin. A shot will follow a telephone wire in close-up through two rooms, stopping briefly at a closeup of the phone, then dollying into a medium close shot of the victim, unaware his phone wire has been severed. In this respect, The Bride Wore Black is a calculated film, one difficult to fault because it is plainly exactly what Truffaut wanted...
There is a wry philosophical idea behind Happy End: since everything in life normally goes from bad to worse, reversing the action will automatically ameliorate the human condition by making things go from worse to merely bad. Thus the film opens with a closeup of the hero's head in a coffin. The camera moves back to show that there is no body attached. Hands lift the head, and place it in a basket, from which it leaps upward to a guillotine where it attaches itself to a body, which takes a last look at the world...
...chamber." Another time, while administering to a Star of Bethlehem, she suddenly cried: "Oh, good Lord! Signs of slugs!" Rummaging through the soil like a Roto-Rooter, she exclaimed, "Aha! There's the little brute!" and flipped it onto a table. As the camera zoomed in for a closeup, she advised squeamish viewers to avert their eyes. Then she went into a mighty windup and bashed the creepy crawler with a flowerpot...
...ballet Astarte appears on the cover of this issue almost exactly as it is seen by audiences. To capture the moment, Photographer Herbert Migdoll photographed the dancers, Trinette Singleton and Maximiliano Zo-mosa, during a performance. Then at another performance, with a telephoto lens, he made the closeup of Miss Singleton's face and the filmed background in order to complete his final montage...
...camera holds too long. A motorcycle idles along for ninety seconds, a dull out-of-focus journey, a bum trip. In another scene six consecutive point-of-view shots reach for tedium. But the hiatus of time often catches qualities unnoticed by a tick-tock eye. A long closeup--almost a still--of Samantha's fragile face penetrates to the madonna calm and compassion she possesses. The epiphany is not just the result of Maeve Kinkead's fine acting. Hunter takes the time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs, the marijuana...