Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath vast, shifting vistas of fleecy clouds, the softly rolling land is marvelously fat and fertile, husbanded by generations of farmers to support plump cattle and rich green wheat. It is the Stour River Valley, a place of running streams and slow canals northeast of London, and almost from the moment he was born in 1776 John Constable cherished it with an early and sure instinct. "The sound of water escaping from milldams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork-I love such things," he wrote. "I had often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched...
Nobody seems to make better use of the five-day week than the young. On a Saturday in summer, the banks of the Moscow River are crowded with young couples strolling and kissing. Even in winter there are ways to beat the restrictions imposed by the chronic housing shortage. The usual way has been to borrow the flat of a friendly couple who are going to the theater or the ballet for an evening, but leisure inspires variations. This past winter one enterprising young man booked a first-class compartment for himself and his girl friend on the Red Arrow...
...fourth grade, and it sounded so fine. I used it with gusto for at least three months before some sixth-grader finally explained what it meant. After that, my friends and I whispered it behind the coat rack at school and shouted it down at the river bank. We believed that the sixth-graders had made it up and that no girl had ever heard it, because it was for men only...
...most grotesque facets of his people and, by making them beautiful, creates their individual strength. This all happens in motion. The progressive character revelation he achieves by constantly placing characters in different positions and new rooms, is supported by the imagery of journey and development--the barge in the river. The film's easy motion through extremely strange scenes carries it naturally into sequences of pure imagination--the montages of the captain and his wife dreaming of each other after the barge's departure without her has separated them...
...both metaphor and fact. The film's last shot does the same through another semi-metaphor for personal experience. The couple reunited, the barge casts off, and Vigo cuts to a very high shot of the barge (from an airplane) which sweeps over it as it sails down river. The shot is a metaphor for their continuing progress, now stabilized by their reunion. At the same time it shows their objective situation--indeed the barge is so fat off that they cannot be seen on it. The shot thus distances us from them as it assures us of their safe...