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Does TIME know where Producer Curt Oertel, who made the Michelangelo film The Titan [TIME, Jan. 30], now lives? While serving with U.S. combat forces in April 1945, I found him in a little village which is now within the Russian-occupied zone of Germany. At that time he was working . . . on a documentary of famous German...
...Titan. An exciting documentary which recreates the work, life and times of Michelangelo without a glimpse of human actors (TIME...
...Titan. An exciting documentary that recreates the work, life and times of Michelangelo without a glimpse of human actors (TIME...
...narration knits together a visual story built out of piazzas, palaces, cathedrals, old maps and prints, the rugged Italian landscapes and, above all, the sculptures, painting and architecture of Michelangelo. The picture gains dramatic immediacy from the rhythm of its cutting, actors' voices offscreen, turning wagon wheels, clashing swords, such shots as clouds racing over a jutting tower. Lighting moves across the screen like an actor, the camera tilts awry at an assassination, the focus blurs as if with pain when Michelangelo's nose is smashed in a brawl...
...lover's major reward is in Michelangelo's feelingly photographed sculptures. They are superbly lighted to bring out all their dimensions. The camera caresses them in detail from perspectives that the unaided eye could never reach; yet details never obscure the whole conception of each work. These scenes build up an exalting impression of Michelangelo's prolific greatness and the abundant beauty he willed to the world...