Word: jitter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as the insane stumble and jitter onstage with their dreadfully absent eyes, their bodily tics, their slavering mouths, their heads lolling like half-decapitated flowers, it is clear that the asylum keeper of the evening is Director Peter Brook. Abetted by the superbly disciplined Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directs with the cool ferocity of a mad scientist, as if he were running a controlled experiment to see how much chilled sweat could be squeezed from the audience's brow. He uses every weapon in the theatrical arsenal to mount a sustained barrage on the senses. A sound track...
...more than an allegory, more than an amorous album. It is an inspired attempt to enlarge and liberate the language of film. Godard tries more cinematic tricks than most moviemakers risk in an entire career, and almost all of them come off. To make a shock scene jump and jitter, he boldly yanks occasional frames out of the sequence. To emphasize an idea, he brutally amputates an episode in mid-speech and lets a phrase fall through the mind like a severed hand. To retard a rhythm or invite a second thought, he serves up a fade so slow...
...Earth Caught Fire (Universal-International). One day, maybe the day after yesterday, seismographs around the world begin to jitter with the most violent tremors ever measured. Days later, the globe still quivers with secondary shocks. Torrential rains fall in improbable places. A sun eclipse occurs ten days early. In Rome the temperature rises to 139°, while in New York a blizzard piles twelve inches of snow on the city's streets. Steam billows up from the sea and rolls over Western Europe at a depth of 50 feet till a flurry of cyclones blows it away...