Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sequence is masterful. With a few stark strokes Antonioni puts a diffuse and apparently senseless picture in a frame, in a black border of mortality that instantly reveals its perspective and its significance as a spiritual admonition, a memento mori. What's more, the frame reveals the picture as an extraordinary effort of style, as a definitive treatment of the themes Antonioni developed in L'Avventura and La Notte. As in those films, he employs the method of tedium to explain the nature of tedium, but he employs it so skillfully now that boredom is seldom boring. Vitti...
...Lawrence he also works with a sensitivity to form and color that he has never shown before-it is as if the desert, like a gigantic strap of white-hot steel, had burned away a northern mist that has always obscured his vision. Time and again the grand rectangular frame of the Panavision screen stands open like the door of a tremendous furnace, and the spectator stares with all his eyes into the molten shimmer of whitegolden sands, into blank incandescent infinity as if into the eye of God. It is a mind-battering experience, an encounter with an absolute...
...pictures under such conditions lor elaborate equipment. Low-level photo planes carry five or more cameras pointing ahead, astern, to each side and directly down. Since the pilot is too busy with flight controls to give the cameras my attention, they must advance their own film and give each frame the proper exposure for the prevailing light conditions. Pictures can be shot singly but the time over the target is so short that they are generally shot as quickly as possible often many times a second...
...figure out how fast the film must move to keep exact pace with the ground. Just before the shutter opens a vacuum sucks the film against a perforated plate that starts moving at the necessary speed. After the shutter has closed, the vacuum releases the film so a new frame can be advanced, and the plate snaps back to its starting position...
...story is just plain silly, and the singer feller on the sound track ("Lobo, Lobo, remember this day/Man's bullets have taken your mother away") is. even harder to take. But the film was shot in Arizona, and frame after frame is crammed with some of the most magnificent scenery on the planet. What's more, the hunting scenes-notably one in which an old wolf elegantly cuts a calf out of its herd and then leaps in savagely to slash its hamstrings-have the beauty and the horror that inevitably attend a blood rite...