Word: flashbacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their conversation soon turns toward last year as X insists that they were lovers. He vividly recounts their words and the camera dissolves to the past in the middle of a direct quotation completed by the X of the flashback. This is the supposed past, the fourth level...
...woman in classic dress. X describes every gesture, every fold of the toga. Meanwhile, the cardgame goes on before our eyes. For a moment we hear the players' voices, and one of them makes a remark which logically precedes X's first statement in the flashback that follows immediately. In this sequence, X and A continue their discussion of the statue, which X had been retelling just a moment before. They try to name the man and woman of the statue, to place them in a mythical context, but too many possible pairs will fit. Does the woman...
Ikiru describes a death occuring over the space of five months. But literally translated, the title means "to live." Watanabe's last day would be the final entry in a plot summary, but skillful use of flashback makes possible a switch between the presentations of his death and the struggle for the park, Ikiru's last scene is not Watanabe dead, but Watanabe watching children in the park he has forced through city hall. It is a very moving ending to a superbly acted and photographed film...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A filmed flashback: New York...
...merely exchanged bosses and became the tool of the union leaders. Like a panorama of the labor movement, the individual case histories unfold. Blackie Bowman is one of labor's gabby old soldiers. From the veterans' hospital bed on which he is dying, he does a flashback recall of his life as a seaman, a miner and a wobbly of the I.W.W. Mostly it is a schooling of hard knocks on his own skull, including a stretch in prison...