Word: mises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway comedy of an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his fussy, divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transformed to the screen virtually unchanged. Actor Matthau more than makes up for the static mise en scene with his comic genius...
...surely you mean lenses, Jake. What a superb melange de style Vierney achieves utilizing quasi-fish-eye, extreme wide angle, kaleidoscopic, wide angle standard focal length, and long lens shots. Shots that delicately commingle the chameleon pastel shades and confirm Resnais's mastery of montage and complete command of mise en scene. Surely, one of the great auteurs...
More discriminating moviegoers will see at once that this 2nd century Rome is really that special, insular world of the cinema spectacular, a mise en scene now as familiar as Main Street. Producer Samuel Bronston constructed a mammoth Roman fortress and filled 250 acres of a Spanish plain with a full-scale reproduction of the Roman Forum as it existed circa A.D. 180. Bronston's Rome is patently too fabulous to have been built in a day, but it doesn't look lived-in either. Director Anthony Mann makes it a picture-book setting aswarm with extras behaving...
...listening to their recording. The album does honor to Turandot. But Puccini's brazen, vivid score sounds best in the opera house--regardless of what high fidelity experts may claim. Furthermore, in a great opera like this, much of the music's power comes from its relation to the mise on scene...