Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honesty and Fuzzy Focus. In the course of this film, fear, combat shock, trickery and brutality on both sides are shown more frankly, with less cinematic salad dressing, than in any U.S. film to date. Yet Guadalcanal Diary must be counted as much a failure as a success...
Trial Balance. Four and one-half years after his victory in Spain's rebellion and civil war, Franco could see little enough to give him comfort or joy. After months of slow disintegration, Spanish affairs were brought into sharp focus. Out of Spain last week came the clearest picture yet of a tottering regime. Franco's country, unreconstructed, is hungry, sullen, restive. He has not a strong friend abroad, and precious few at home. Of the two powerful allies who forged his victory, Italy lies prostrate, the battleground of foreign armies; Germany, no longer able...
...rather frank realism which goes on just behind the eyes and the lines of this eager young couple is abetted by some excellent rawboned Western street scenes and by some unusually vivid uses of sound (coyotes, snores, a neighing horse) and camera (scrambled focus for excitement and intoxication) to startle and amuse. John Wayne manages, more toughly if less charmingly than Gary Cooper in his early days, to create a sort of Rocky Mountain Jean Gabin. Jean Arthur, who has the brunt of the comedy to handle, is one of the most attractive handlers in the business, but undermines some...
Listen to Britain (also produced by Humphrey Jennings) is a venturesome attempt to focus attention on the sounds of a nation, rather than on its sights. Some of it is dull because: 1) the sights predominate and are of themselves commonplace; 2) the literal sound issues too predictably from the literal image. But toward the end, sound predominates. At a Myra Hess daytime performance of Mozart's Concerto in G Major, in London's war-stripped National Gallery, quietly the Queen appears, among the bemused faces of her subjects. As the magnificently formal music falls from...
...Focus and locus of most of Author Mitchell's studies is the environs of McSorley's Old Ale House, which for 88 years has resisted change just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead...