Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally a play, and once before produced as a movie,* the new version of the story resembles a photographed stage show. Most of the action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect...
Plans for the five story building began with Thomas Lamont's gift of $1,500,000 in November, 1945. Construction started in June, 1947, after the Dana-Palmer House, which formerly occupied the southeast corner of the Yard, was moved across Quincy st. to the plot between the Faculty Club and the Union...
When Producer Roberto Rosselini ("Open City") made "Paisan," he was not trying to create a polished masterpiece. He knew that war is not a plot, a story, a typewritten script. Rather, war is no more than an endless sequence of horrible episodes, and that, precisely, is what the movie "Paisan," successfully puts across...
...Paisan" has no plot, but this adds to the film rather than harming it. The movie is composed of six entirely unrelated episodes with the common background of war; specifically, the war in Italy. Each episode lights up one side of the conflict, giving the observer a closer glimpse into the effect of total war on ordinary, inconspicuous persons. Of the six episodes, two stand out so forcefully that they grip you, make you feel the awful futility...
...plot of the movie is the true story of Mary Jane Ward, as taken from her book. It begins with her first realization that she is in an insane asylum. The movie then traces her gradual recovery through two relapses to an eventual release. As she moves through several stages of the asylum on her way to improvement, groups in all conditions of insanity surround her, from Bedlam-like unfortunates to the mildly eccentric...