Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naturally rich and boiling with life. The water of breaking waves in such areas is green and turbid because it is full of microscopic plants and animals grazing on them. But large parts of the ocean are deserts with hardly any life. Their breaking waves are sapphire blue, the color of clear and lifeless water. Fish migrate away like cattle from a grazed-out range...
...looking like an absurd Harlemization of Chico Marx, makes a wonderfully silly stinker out of Sportin' Life. The singing is generally good-particularly the comic bits by Pearl Bailey and the ballads by Adele Addison, who sings the role of Bess while Dorothy Dandridge acts it. And the color photography gains a remarkable lushness through the use of filters, though in time -2 hr. 36 min., including an intermission -the spectator may get tired of the sensation that he is watching the picture through amber-colored sunglasses...
Visually, The Nun's Story is almost dazingly beautiful. The colors are rich and sensuous, the light innocent and cool; and when light and color play together on the medieval stones of Bruges or Brussels, the screen glows like an awakened frame of old Vermeer. Dramatically, the film has been admirably conceived and impressively executed. Religiously, it is rather shallow. There is merit in the picture's painstaking effort to convey the physical reality of convent life, but somewhere the spiritual reality is lost. The radiant pageant of devotion ravishes the senses, but it does not touch...
...smoking jacket and pants (see cut) of muted-green velveteen piped in mauve (retail price: $125). Another costume from the same designer, onetime top U.S. fashion model (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949): a woolen evening wrap shaped like a cocoon, with a single saucer-sized button under the chin. The color: hot canary...
...Katherine Hulme's novel about a Belgian girl's glorious failure in attempting to be a worthy nun. It should appeal to non-Catholics and non-believers as well as Catholics. The picture has a fine screenplay by Robert Anderson '39, firm direction by Fred Zinnemann, and beautiful color photography. Audrey Hepburn in the title role give a flawless performance; and more than able assistance is provided by Mildred Dunnock, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch, and others...