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Firecrackers Banging. The same improvisational quality pervades the movie; breast-twisting rapes occur whenever the plot flags; sloe-eyed, heavy-breathing women chuff across the screen like freight trains; Dax goes through his life phases (from peasant to gigolo to millionaire) with a single expression -that of a man with...
Amid all the partying along the 100-mile-wide umbra of total darkness stretching from Mexico toward Florida and northward to Nantucket Island, the jammed hotels and motels included serious amateur scientists carrying altered telescopes and cameras to view or record the historic event without damage to eye or lens...
THE VIRTUE of The Damned is that it accepts the devices which make current film-making flabby: the zoom and the telephoto lens, artificially colored lighting, freely structured compositions, and long takes. Then it shows what a man with guts, who teants to make this picture, can do with these...
"The effect," says Wrede, "is supposed to come from focusing on details-cadging an extra bowl of food, finding half a cigarette, making a compassionate gesture. We're being very wary of pretty pictures, those Zhivago-style long wide shots." His cameraman is Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer, Sven...
Though Soviet audiences see the U.S. mostly through the astigmatic lens of ideology, some of the picture does come through in reasonably clear focus. Despite dogma, a new sophistication prevails, most notably in the attitude that for all of America's failings, there is much to be learned from...