Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Herzog's compatriots, gimlet-eyed burghers such as Volker Schlondorff, Wim Wenders and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, made their mark by refracting the cynical spirit of postwar Germany through a lens as hip as the new Hollywood's. Herzog renounces the rubble and babble of his homeland...
Carson's precision-tooled comedic skills owe much, as Cavett points out, to certain illustrious forebears: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope-"and Oliver Hardy-that burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the...
Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) wants her substance and style to be Golden Age Hollywood. Like Sybille Schmitz, the German actress on whose life and perplexing death the film is based, Veronika is an aging movie star on the way down and out. For Veronika, the '40s were all beautiful...
The editors chose to publish 35 from Leifer's portfolio, the largest photo essay by a single photographer ever to run in TIME. All, except for the cover portrait of Attica Inmate Richard Eder, were black-and-white shots. Says Leifer: "Prison is a very, very boring existence for...
Nelson is Barbarosa, an aging outlaw who has grown tired of living up to his 30-year legend. Gary Busey plays (engagingly, as always) a renegade farm boy who wants to be part of that legend and, if he can, extend it into Western myth. For all its genre trappings...