Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick dazzles the eye and bends the mind in this space-age parable of the secret of life...
...McCarthy admitted that Humphrey's gesture would bring only about eight delegates to his side. When Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, undiplomatically suggested that he could work very well with George Wallace as President, Humphrey took even that small opening to say-with an eye to the young voter-that a Humphrey Administration would hire a new man to guide the draft...
What the visitor in fact sees, when he first passes through the huge, wrought-iron gates, is a palace that seems to the sophisticated eye merely a blend of French and Italian architectural styles. The chateau's peaked roofs, developed by France's François Mansart are coupled with an Italianate dome reminiscent of St. Peter's. The entrance vestibule, decorated with Tuscan columns, leads into an 88-ft.-long white oval Grand Salon circled by arched French windows and crowned with stucco caryatids...
There are two basic ways to do pedestrian Shakespeare. One could be described as the old-fashioned heavy classical method the Old Vic employed splendidly in the 1950's; although no surprises reward the attentive eye of an audience, it's Shakespeare and it's all there. The second method is the flagrantly interpretive stylized re-think so many directors feel essential nowadays when taking-on the bard...
...high angle, a forward track moving left, one moving right, and a pull back to wide-angle. The effect is again one of montage--the creation of masterful rhythm from smaller individual rhythms -- and again the illusion gives way to the truth of the image on the film. An eye-opening shot of Paul lowering blinds in his living room gives us in one static set-up three different perspectives, three different lighting conditions: truly an amazing revelation...