Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RAY SINCLAIR WOOD Mildura, Australia
Adrien Joyce's screenplay does not have to cover much territory (in time or space) or involve many characters to bring its goods home. It tells the simple story of a moody redneck named Robert Dupea (Jack Nicholson), who works on an oil-rig by day and sleeps with Ray (Karen Black), a dumb-blonde diner waitress, by night...
What makes Five Easy Pieces different from other recent American movies, though, is that Robert is detestable. He treats people, particularly women, like shit. He almost runs out on waitress Ray when she becomes pregnant, and, later, when she shows up at his father's home, he ignores her to the point of cruelty...
...Tops exemplifies one type of film done by Charles and Ray Eames, the toy films. These films are "purely visual and musical," said Eames. In their previous toy films, Charles and Ray Eames explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over blacktop. When the making of bread was the topic for a film presentation at UCLA in 1953, they added smells of freshly baked bread to the images and sounds on the screen...
Charles and Ray Eames restore order to their world with their problem solving. "It is in preparing the problem for solution, in the necessary steps of simplification that we often gain the richest rewards...