Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol he has imbibed. After a mere two pints of beer, or four small tots of whisky, he risks arrest...
...intelligent treatment of sensitivity and violence, social and sexual impotence, within a familiar if abstracted social context. Bonnie and Clyde's merits have been much-discussed, and I can only state, with rank admiration, how beautifully wrought the film is: in the choices Peen has made in determining color and visual style, in the script construction and dialogue idiom, and in the consistently excellent acting...
...state of perpetual atrophy, and Warhol is no exception. Though his current style is simple, it is not simplistic, and I have yet to lose interest in a Warhol composition for as long a time as he chooses to leave it on the screen. His recent experiment with color and editing have proved his interest in his won artistic development, and his choice of actors and material proves that he even directs on occasion, turning out some of the more exciting film in recent years...
Chappaqua by Conrad Rooks. In a decade where drugs are commonly associated with cinema in terms of strange optical effects, whirling patterns of color, and strobe-lit copulation, Conrad Rooks' Chappaqua appears almost ascetic, carefully constructed and disciplined. Recounting the story of his won cure from drug and alcohol addiction, Rooks adheres to a dramatic convention where the drug visions stem largely from objectively presented details of Rooks' past life. This is not to say that all films of psychedelia profit from traditional structuring; but by sticking to a coherent narrative, Rooks and photographer Robert Frank make this nether world...
...strongest and most asured in his choice of camera angel, subject, and movement. Accident is Losey at his most disciplined. Still, one suspects come fear behind the self-control, a lack of instinct as to how to treat the material, Due largely to sloppy lab work, I suspect, the color is disappointing, but Accident's acting, by Bogarde, Stanley Baker, and Vivienne Merchant, is extraordinary...