Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look at the Boston Symphony's new music director, Seiji Ozawa, and a little foreground from Berlioz and Mozart. CH.5. 10 p.m. Color...
That is understandable. The script pretty well maroons him in a tide of bromides about the dirty business of spying. Winner, a director whose idea of filling the frame is to put something, anything-a sink, a vase-in the foreground of every shot, makes only occasional feints toward rescuing his star. However, there is a very clever, quietly brutal assassination scene. Some estimable players-Paul Scofield, John Colicos, J.D. Cannon-are present to lend support. There is even a certain obtuse symmetry to the carnage that closes the film. ∙Jay Cocks
Then and Now is the newest Doc and Merle Watson collection, and the first to give Merle equal billing with his father. It's only fitting, since after ten years the two play so well together, exchanging melody and harmony, lead and rhythm, foreground and background parts so cleanly and delicately that they produce what sounds like a single guitar playing impossibly intricate music. The sound is light, the rhythm flawless, and the product a source of inspiration to country-rock musicians from Jim Messina to Jerry Garcia...
...comic gets a booking under an assumed name and tries to make a comeback. During Calvero's act, Chaplin shows us the audience: half are asleep, the rest impatient and mumbling. Yawning spectators start leaving. Soon, everyone has left, but for a single nodding head in the foreground. The rest is chairs. A comeback attempt, if it fails, can be an embarassment even for the audience. Those in the audience Chaplin filmed don't know the performer is the once-great Calvero, so they are spared that embarassment. But we always know that we are watching Chaplin, and though...
MUCH OF THE HUMOR in Yojimbo is based on Kurosawa's sense of irony. For instance, when the samurai enters the town, the first sight that greets him is of a small dog. Rinky-dink music accompanies the dog as he trots towards the foreground. Finally, the animal is in perfect focus and one can discern that in its mouth is--a human hand...