Word: focused
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entertainment, Director Sydney Pollack emphasizes rowdy period flavor and gives his cast leeway for showy performances. The movie as a whole is too bright and vulgar to be dull, but expensive talent has been squandered on every chore except the crucial one of keeping a small, evanescent tragedy in focus...
...instances where Poussin painted a living person, for portraiture was then considered a lowly form, was his self-portrait of 1650. With an intimation of the coming romantic age, he cloaks himself in an academic gown, accouters himself with a book, and poses against pictures whose gilt edges focus attention especially on his eyes. It is clearly the portrait of the artist as rational philosopher, saying with Cartesian clarity: I perceive, therefore I paint...
...most visually complex and subtle films ever made. The Master establishes suspense, atmosphere, and minute characterizational detail with editing and color camerawork. In manipulating the reactions of the audience he knows so well, Hitchcock quietly (and romantically) uses point-of-view shots to switch character emphasis, soft and distorted focus to heighten tension, soundtrack modulation to isolate the important, and back-projection (when a scene is played in front of a projected background) to subtly increase intimacy...
Torn Curtain takes Hitchcock into new territory. With the first scene between Newman and Andrews, Hitchcock establishes their love affair as stabler and healthier than those in his previous films. The love scene is composed entirely of close-ups of them together. But almost immediately, by using out-of-focus camerawork and contrasting their points-of-view in his editing, Hitchcock begins to separate them visually, to put strain on the stability of their relationship...
...point of maximum control of his medium. Breaking new ground in color photography, he has filmed Torn Curtain without direct lighting. Instead, he has used reflected light, bounced off a white screen on the set. This reduces the color contrasts, putting much of the film into lush soft-focus, and almost eliminating unnecessary shadows...