Word: interruptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounds, but Director Kalatozov has told it with smashing verve. He has obviously made the picture he wanted to make, relatively free of official interference, and the sense of freedom thrills in every frame. Kalatozov can seldom resist the brilliant angle and the trenchant frame, even when they interrupt the story, and his glorious effects of cutting and lighting are often spectacularly inappropriate. But somehow the vital extravagance of the film engages the spectator and whirls him along in its whirling mood. This mood is personified in Heroine Samoilova, an astonishingly imaginative young actress who is the type of Tolstoy...
...proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt. The whole was something less than the sum of its brilliant parts. Pleasant surprises of the evening were Frederick Jacobi's Yeibichai: Variations for Orchestra on an American Indian Theme, which employed some interestingly experimental orchestral effects, and Lamar Stringfield's Symphonic Ballad, "The Legend of John Henry...