Word: screen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only asylum run by its inmates. It was the town where, as George Jean Nathan said, "ten million dollars' worth of machinery functions elaborately to put skin on baloney." There is still plenty of machinery out there putting skin on baloney. But the most important fact about the screen in 1967 is that Hollywood has at long last become part of what the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema calls" the furious springtime of world cin ema," and is producing a new kind of movie...
...story, they no longer need adhere to the convention that a movie should have a beginning, middle and end. Chronological sequence is not so much a necessity as a luxury. The slow, logical flashback has given way to the abrupt shift in scene. Time can be jumbled on the screen-its foreground and background as mixed as they are in the human mind. Plot can diminish in a forest of effects and accidents; motivations can be done away with, loose ends ignored, as the audience, in effect, is invited to become the scenarist's collaborator, filling in the gaps...
...most astonishing revelation about Gone With the Wind is how exquisitely it is shot. The transfer to wide screen (very well handled by MGM's technicians) only confirms the realization that the film could have been made yesterday. The technical brilliance of its camerawork extends from ravishingly beautiful moving shots to the subtler effects of lighting and camera placement. Carefully controlled backlighting enables several crucial scenes to be played substantially in darkness, a dramatic effect rarely associated with Hollywood high baroque...
...acting remains irresistible. Clark Gable's appeal is eternal--witness the admiring gasps at his first on-screen appearance. He is the supremely confident male, the ultimate proof of his virility coming not in he-man scenes but at the moment when, talking baby-talk to his week-old daughter, he projects the ineffable tenderness of a proud and strong father. The breathtaking bravura of his proposal scene to Vivien Leigh sweeps not only the lady off her feet but the whole audience as well...
Fifteen Cliffies crowded around the beaming professor. The party lasted for twenty minutes, while a panorama of Stockholm flashed on a screen...