Word: flashbacks
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Before Lake does so, the action stops every few minutes, the screen turns a noxious color, and there appears a flashback showing how Lake got into this ghastly mess. It is in one of these scenes that Miss McNair turns up as Lake's girl Lily. No sooner has she appeared on-screen than she is writhing in St. Jacques' embrace. To make a film debut this way may have been a tactical and professional error. Except for her stylish vocalizing, Miss McNair displays more photogenic than histrionic talent, and in her first screen role she has already...
Collinwood is located high above the Maine coast. The time is the present, though most of last winter was spent in a flashback to the 18th century when Barnabas first won his fangs. As for the plot, even Frid himself concedes, "There are times when I have abso lutely no idea what's going on. I'm sure people get together to speculate on what the show is all about...
...regardless of point-of-view and our knowledge of the intensity of her purpose, Julie's killings if understandable, are nonetheless private acts in which we cannot share. Flashback sequences, so purgative and cathartic in Hitchcock, are coldly detached in The Bride Wore Black, existing in a no-man's-land between Julie and the audience; the slow motion sequence is stylistically justifiable only if we interpret Coutard's contemplative panning as emerging from a half-memory of Julie's too personal for us to experience. The last shot of the film also deprives us of the vision...
...which El Cordobés' life is seen is his Big Fight - the 1964 Madrid corrida in which he was elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage of a crafty...
...hopefully--onto a nondescript corridor. You pass a press room, then a secretary's office. The inner sanctum is a large room that, despite its heavy furniture, appears empty. There is an imposing mahogany desk, a matching conference table, an antique, roccoco grandfather's clock. The room is a flashback to a past generation. The beige telephone seems anachronistic...