Word: convey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathetic narrative about a boy from the Azores who likes to watch the Atlantic planes come in, and dreams of going to America, "Technical Landing," by Ivan Morris, may convey shades of Kafka to some, but as a character study the story stands well by itself. Perhaps the fact that the planes only come in when they're in trouble and the suggestion that the boy hasn't the ghost of a chance of going to America have divine implications, but it doesn't affect the quality of the work either way. "Girl in a Blue Mood," by Arthur...
Perhaps the best photography of its kind ever seen in the movies, the authentic hunting scenes convey vividly the feelings of two kinds of men when faced by a charging lion. This immediacy adds a great deal to the story, and before long the audience is participating in both the lion-hunting by day and the human drama of the night. The end of the picture is disappointing, but the climax is past, so it doesn't make much difference. Except for one or two incongruous touches in the portrayal of Macomber's cowardice, you'll like "The Macomber Affair...
...Coward nearly always writes with much purer feeling about unsophisticated women, and Celia Johnson and Kay Walsh make the most of some beautiful opportunities. Miss Johnson has a subtly balanced melancholic power, and an ability to convey complex emotions simply, which derive from the great days of the stage, and are almost never seen in a film. And the excellent director, David Lean (In Which We Serve, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter), has again rendered Mr. Coward as rich a service as Mr. Coward has rendered...
...drifts regally between tight-packed tables, cased in her working harness (a high-necked, pink-&-blue job by Sophie of Saks, encrusted from top to toe with 20 pounds of bead-work), Evelyn suggests a youthful Magda Lupescu. And when she finds a suitable ringside male, she manages to convey, crooning to the poor Joe from a good six feet off, that she is twisting her fingers in his hair...
...amusing, rather slow picture, Apley is not quite what it might have been: a shrewd comedy of character and of the effect upon character of a highly special place and atmosphere. The film sketches rather than explores the character and fails to do what movies can do so well: convey a special mood...