Word: disconnectedness
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Nor are they the only cinematic debris. For no good reason, The Charge of the Light Brigade includes a disconnected, listless affair between an officer (David Hemmings) and his best friend's wife (Vanessa Redgrave). Scenarist Charles Wood (How I Won the War) overloads the script with totally unsubtle...
Stewart credits Dean K. Whitla, acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, with the idea of using ohmmeters for silent testing. The suggestion came after Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, complained last December to Stewart about residents of Lowell who, bothered by...
In a disconnected house, on a disconnected morning, Anastasia comes suddenly upon a little girl (Karen Ascheim), the daughter of a married lover. There is a chilling scene. Two witches in a sun-lit room, mirror images through time. Anastasia confronts her small imp of the perverse, little Pearl in...
Londoner Bennett is one of a group of young Britons who have been touched, but not pushed over, by the twelve-tone style of Pierre Boulez, with whom he studied for a time. Mines, commissioned by Sadler's Wells and first performed there three years ago, partakes of some...
The problem goes deeper than Nichols' consistent substitution of trickiness for style. A great director, Rosselini or Hitchcock, plans his film as a totality, understanding instinctively how each shot relates to the film as a whole; a competent director of narrative films like Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) plans shots with relation...