Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Demy wants us to accept this world of risks and hunches, of madness and winning rhythms. He fails, however, because he presents neither the people (who they are, where they come from, why they play) nor the dynamics of the game. His focus, his real point of interest, seems to lie somewhere outside the frame. His techniques, because they do not support a reality within the film, become mere gimmicks: hard lines surrounding emptiness and false-echoing silence that are relics of many recent European films...
...features to support a verbal point. (Anke's manager: "The boy is great, simply great. We haven't seen such a talent in five hundred years." Anka: "I'm just using the talent I was given to make people happy.") The shots of Anka's performances are superb: a focus on the singer, his face, then a quick cut to a close-up of a screaming girls, which establishes the connection more immediately than if you had been there...
Antonioni shot most of Th Red Desert with a telephoto lens, using various degress of magnification to achieve just the amount of flatness and focus that he wanted at any given moment. Antonioni, the consumate film-painter, has manipulated every device of film technology to assure that each tiny smudge will help create the exactly correct impression. He has challenged us to develop, not only our aesthetic, but our human sensitivity as well...
...more than a month, the action stirred by Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence has centered in London and Salisbury. Last week the focus shifted to another capital: Lusaka, where Zambia's moderate black African President Kenneth Kaunda was caught in an ever tightening bind...
...their accomplishments. There has not been enough time for that, What is important, is not the achievement, but the goals: This student government doesn't aim at electing someone to the American Presidency; nor does it see Nirvana in a neon-lighted lecture hall. Instead it is trying to focus the intelligence of interested students into the dark corners of Harvard's administrative policy, to improve substantially the education every student receives. It seems just possible that the College has finally found a student government fitted to its needs and idiosyncracies. The experiment may still fail, but there is every...