Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will we make Martin Luther King's undiminished and unyielding dream of an integrated and just society of black and white a reality? Or will we allow the slow motion of judicial, all deliberate speed to continue to maim the minds of the young, black and white alike...
Some conductors will do anything to get an audience. Last week at a regular concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Maestro Zubin Mehta showed motion pictures. Now, it is well known that in Hollywood country, people will come out to see anything on film. And it is equally well known that when it comes to introducing new music, Mehta is a genuine 20th century fox. But wasn't this carrying show...
...discovered that slow movement (of space crafts, for example) is as impressive on a Cinerama screen as fast movement (the famous Cinerama roller-coaster approach), also that properly timed sequences of slow movement actually appear more real--sometimes even faster--than equally long long sequences of fast motion shots. No film in history achieves the degree of three-dimensional depth maintained consistently in 2001 (and climaxed rhapsodically in a shot of a pulsating stellar galaxy); Kubrick frequently focuses our attention to one side of the wide screen, then introduces an element from the opposite corner, forcing a re-orientation which...
...following scene, an australopithicine discovers what we will call the tool, a bone from a skeleton which, when used as an extension of the arm, adds considerably to the creature's strength. The discovery is executed in brilliant slow motion montage of the pre-ape destroying the skeleton with the bone, establishing Kubrick and Clarke's subjective anthropological notion that the discovery of the tool was identical to that of the weapon. The "dawn of man," then, is represented by a coupling of progress and destruction; a theme of murder runs through 2001 simultaneously with that of progress. Ultimately, Kubrick...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw in its sordid lot with the apostles of non-violence last night, naming In the Heat of the Night best picture, its star Rod Steiger best actor, and Sterling Silliphant's script best original screenplay. The chief victim of the backlash was Bonnie and Clyde, which for the sensitive members of the Academy conjured up visions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown...