Word: framed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston tried to put the game away in the final frame, and rolled to a 98-88 advantage with only seven minutes left to play. But Denver had not won ten of its first 11 contests in their first NBA season by giving up in the stretch. They hung tough, and high-flying David Thompson sparked a rally...
...visitors put the game out of reach later in the frame when center Greg Sheppard and Wayne Cashman clicked for goals only 24 seconds apart. Both goals were assisted by scrappy Terry O'Reilly, who battled for the puck along the boards and then fed perfect passes to teammates in the slot...
These pictures are without exception more than just likeable, though. Lifson's lens views a subject and catches the formal connections and the frame intrinsic to that subject. "Niagara Falls", for example, is seen through a glass window and balcony that enclose the foreground. A row of skyscrapers provide the backdrop. Looking closer, one perceives the interconnections between the forms in front of the falls--the in bric-a-brac on the window sill--and those behind, the buildings on the sill of the river...
Paths of Glory. A great film. From the grainy, wide-angled eye we have on the hellish World War I French front, to the glaring, mausoleum-like courtrooms of Versaille, death permeates every frame of this film. There is nothing easy about watching this movie, nothing very happy. Sometimes it is hollow and sometimes it is over-intellectualized in an affected way. But Kubrick, who knows how to make a movie and thinks about it hard, does not let details float wrong. He knows how to mount an assault, and he knows how to do it without taking facile roads...
...aspires to the peripheral and occasionally epiphanal, is sometimes just blurry, but then no one expected Ah, Wilderness! from someone not even out of the forest. O'Donnell's gift is what sticks, and it is some gift indeed: funny, touching and distinctive. This dividend is the one you frame because it's the first...