Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consistently cool and noncommittal, and style doesn't have to create sympathy. At any rate, here style no longer seems a whim, or a self-consciously wielded tool, or a way of glorifying the director's role. Instead it fosters a sense of the film itself, as a medium. Scenes photographed with the camera on its side or shown in negative remind one not of the unseen creator but of the nature of his materials. Godard employs a whole catalogue of cinematic tricks--intertitles before the monologues, subtitles supplementing dialogue, jump cuts, characters whispering their thoughts from off-screen, sudden...
...film's major virtues are Kurosawa's, not Shakespeare's. Even with a normal-size screen, the camera, rarely moving in for a close-up or even a medium shot, tracks and frames the characters for a succession of strikingly beautiful compositions. And Kurosawa's time dilation--Macbeth and Banquo galloping endlessly in and out of the fog, or Duncan's pallbearers marching heavily up to the gates of his castle--shows the power that Hollywood in catering to the shortest common attention span, has sacrificed...
...large range of component part companies, shell out as much as $1,500, and spend as long as a week hooking all the parts together. The only alternative was a cheap portable phonograph that sounded as tinny with two stereo speakers as it used to with one, or a medium-priced console that was long on looks but short on fidelity. Now, however, great music is coming in more manageable packages...
...combining oil, gouache and pieces of torn paper. Today his elegantly signed collages-which often combine pieces of French Gauloises cigarette packages, an envelope from his English bookseller or a football ticket-sell for from $3,500 to $5,500, are considered by connoisseurs the most elegant in the medium...
...Korea, when "a medium high American officer was relieved of his command for what, so far as I could tell, was incompetence and nonperformance on a blatant scale, some of the homeside boys took this up and made him a martyr, ranting in paragraph after paragraph about the sins of the 'top brass.' I thought there was an air of needless controversy−professional hostility−about those reporters." Almost as if he were looking forward toward Vietnam, Rand concluded that the reporters were indulging in the same sort of "perfunctory muckraking, or imitation of crusading," that they...