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...Crimson is the deep almost physical attachment most Crimeds have for the building at 14 Plympton Street, for the other people who help put the paper out, and for the integrity of the paper. The attachment is not less amazing if you consider the less than elegant decor of the building, the often bizarrely heterogeneous natures of the dozens of students who make up the Crimson, and the inescapable hard work that goes into...
...Crimson is the deep almost physical attachment most Crimeds have for the building at 14 Plympton Street, for the other people who help put the paper out, and for the integrily of the paper. The attachment is not less amazing if you consider the less than elegant decor of the building, the often bizarrely heterogeneous natures of the dozens of students who make up the Crimson , and the inescapable hard work that goes into...
CHYTILOVA conveys this fractionalism not through camera movement or frame composition, but rather through decor and the plastic material itself. The film skips from color to black and white, to harsh grain, loud color tones, and a wide variety of tints, often making several changes within a shot. Their apartment, the creation of Krunbachova, is a patchwork of high fashion, pop art, and fin de siecle decorativism, defining their character with hundreds of faces clipped from magazine advertisements. Chytilova has further employed various complex animation techniques and frequent single framing to stress the discontinousness of her subjects experience...
...this, it's essential that we are seeing flashbacks, not Lola's actual life. The "wooden" Lola of the flashbacks is at least half the circus Lola, an almost dead woman. In her memory decor assumes tremendous evocative weight, the context assumes power over the characters, and events are more nearly frozen memory-images than continuously moving points of an evolving life...
Sailor Suits. Among his latest acquisitions are two Manhattan landmarks -Luchow's, where the schnitzel has been unadorned for decades, and Charles in Greenwich Village, where the menu used to be sensible and the decor genteel. Now Charles has burst into a kind of bordello Byzantine, where a female harpist plucks away and the lighting is too dim to see the food (not that one would want to). So far, mercifully, Ellman has left Luchow's alone...