Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ophuls' attitude is continuously present near the surface of La Ronde, constantly making itself felt when the relations between his characters change. And Ophuls judges right. Given the lightness of his characters-any one of whom one sees for a maximum of twenty minutes-a script built on their "love"-relations could easily have become excessively patterned, illustrative only of a rigid scheme of life...
...drama and its trappings. The first episode continues this artificiality by omitting foreground objects and shoving the characters up against backdrops, divorcing their plain flat facial lighting from the elaborate play of shadows on the flat sets. When the characters decide to join this trivial game of love, the bright spots of light dancing on the walls behind them begin to hit their faces, and the circle of love-affairs begins...
...other films enlarge the audience's moral awareness of its experience by developing the implications of their styles. Our enjoyment of Madame de... shifts toward regret when we see that its sweeping camera motions are imprisoning its characters in dances through time. The vulgarity of our love of spectacle and self-revelation turns Lola Montes into a terrible humiliation of its heroine...
Barrage of Sights. What Sesame Street does, blatantly and unashamedly, is take full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it-kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story." Instead of cornflakes and Kleenex, Sesame Street sells the alphabet, numbers, ideas and concepts in commercial form. Each program contains a dozen or more 12- to 90-second spots, many repeated during the program to boost...
Soccer is more than a game to "Getch," as he prefers to be called. It is a passion, a means of developing human beings. "I love soccer and I love to work with kids," he says...