Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside, the sense of dislocation increased. From up in the balcony of the theater, not much was to be seen; the actors on the big black stage were too far away, so that the audience spent its time craning for a glimpse of the TV monitors mounted along the parapets...
Died. Paul Strand, 85, American photographer who created "candid camera," or unposed photographs, by attaching a brass lens to the side of his camera and working at right angles to fool his unsuspecting subject; in Orgeval, France. Strand broke with the soft-focus romantic tradition, aiming instead at social realism...
As for the story of Barry Lyndon. The reviewers will tell you O'Neal is a rogueish Lyndon. He seemed to me to be the type of guy who gets hit by the Second Avenue Subway while trying to rape a Tactical Force policeman in drag. Kubrick also ignores a...
WHEN CRITICS dislike a work they don't want to pan publicly, they shower superlatives on its technique. Barry Lyndon, critic after critic has written, is an extraordinarily beautiful film. Unwilling to admit they saw Barry Lyndon as a failure (because they know Kubrick is smarter than they are and...
Since the '30s, the quality of horror has steadily deteriorated. Hollywood milked the market by offering two monstrosities for the price of one (Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man) and finally turned the grand old ghouls into shambling straight men for the giggle brigade (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein). In the...