Word: illusionality
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The 3-D process is at its best in giving the illusion of depth to a composition. One recalls that several more serious films (Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder was one) were made in 3-D but released flat when studios discovered that the craze was dying down...
The result is that one embarks upon this gossamer fiction with a head stuffed full of what it does not mean. No, Field notwithstanding, the romantic hero, Martin Edelweiss, is not motivated toward self-eclipse by his parents' early separation. No, there is no connection between Glory's...
This apparently indicated that Nixon was being frustrated by lower officials at the State and Defense departments who wanted a more evenhanded approach. The secret minutes later reported: "Dr. Kissinger said that whoever is putting out background information is provoking presidential wrath. The President is under the illusion that he...
Disneyland has always represented something more than a conventional amusement park. The intricacy of the animation of the robots, the college of Disney versions of basic American folklore, the reduction and recreation of American mythology in a world designed basically for preadolescents are all disturbing indications that Disneyland is too...
The characters in Carl Dreyer's film Gertrud move from one beautifully photographed pose to another discussing the meaning of their lives. "Life is a long chain of dreams," the middle-class heroine Gertrud tells her young lover. "The world is an illusion" her former lover echoes. But it is...