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Alfred Hitchcock describes most movies as "pictures of people talking." But he considers his own films "pure cinema," meaning storytelling through montage, the art of putting shots together to convey an idea to his audience. Hitchcock emphasizes this visual concept of film-making whenever he discusses his own films, and in seeing his fiftieth, Torn Curtain, it would be wise to take the hint...
What these modern playwrights aim for is not to convey actions, messages or answers but states of being and feeling. Some playgoers insist that they hate and cannot comprehend these modern plays. The playwrights counter that this hate is what Oscar Wilde described as "the rage of Caliban at seeing his own face." No doubt, they are reporting as honestly as they know how on a moral wasteland. But it is a selected part of the terrain of life, and selection implies exclusion...
...Mexico Military Institute. He has a 20-year-old son who before long will face a problem similar to that of this year's graduating class. Working in the faster medium of watercolor rather than his more familiar tempera, Hurd immediately liked his subject, sought to convey the impression of a young man seriously pondering the future-which surely represents the mood of the class...
Better with Rats. All of these teachers, and the others on the cover, have some common qualities that tend to dispel what Cornell's Perkins calls the "marvelous smoke screen" teachers have thrown up to convey the notion that "what they are doing is an occult mystery." All have demonstrated sound scholarship through publication. All are immersed in a conviction that their scholarship has an irresistible relevance to life, and feel compelled to convey that relevance. And all believe that in sights, ideas, ways of thinking, methods of inquiry, are far more important to implant in young minds than...
...wear out your pants. Director Robert Ginn and his cast of five have made no effort to alleviate the brutality of O'Neill's play. They have mounted a stark, oppressive Long Day's Journey which, while it catches the agony of O'Neill's experience, fails to convey the healing forgiveness which O'Neill granted that experience...