Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once he and his new friends launch themselves on their mission proper, it turns out to be well staged and photographed, the beauty of the gliders aloft or the suspenseful silence of their descent on the wicked ones is impossible to deny. The concluding shootout, in which the police and the army bumble up just in time to help, is also nicely handled, bloodshed and death being kept to a minimum instead of being dwelt upon in the modish manner...
...kicks off. Roger Ebert, the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times writes to the Village Voice this week: "In an uninterrupted take showing a character climbing those stairs [in Rains's house] there appear to be exactly 22 steps, but that in the masterful final scene of the descent of those stairs, a count of the steps taken by the various characters indicates that they go down 37 or 38 steps. Hitchcock, of course, deceives us visually, stretching the stairs to prolong the complex emotional interplay of the scene." Nobody's arguing...
...Jeanette give the cage a mighty push. As it begins to turn, Bale hops inside, then makes like a hamster in an exercise wheel. As the cage rises, he runs up the inside to help maintain speed. When it reaches the top, Bale backpedals frantically to slow the whooshing descent, reversing again at the bottom to propel himself around the loop once more...
...also has its adat, as is clear enough when one hears an older member explaining to new recruits the way things used to be done. An appeal is being made to our own cult of the ancestors. The older members, by telling this lore, claim moral descent from the great men and women of the past. To hear these greybeards tell it, one, two and three years ago people lived bolder and more romantic lives. As a resident of the house on two occasions separated by a couple of years, I have found it fascinating to watch the process...
...case your memory doesn't extend back to sixth grade, Charlie Brown consists of a series of vignettes, tied together neatly by the notion of the cast's descent into the abyss of comical self-doubt and (yuk, yuk) mutual recrimination. The six cast members handle the material superbly; Leslie Koenig's direction has resulted in a tight and fast moving ninety minutes. Greg Smith's Charlie Brown is a sincere, handsome if "wishy-washy" little guy with a faint trace of southern accent. Jim Meier's Snoopy is a dog that thinks he's a dancing ham; his "Suppertime...