Word: sensualism
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...heart attack; in San Francisco. Cunningham got started with a correspondence course in photography as a high school student, opened her own portrait studio in 1910 and kept on track as a young mother in the 1920s, photographing the flowers in her garden. Her portraits, nudes, surrealistic juxtapositions and sensual studies of plants have been seen in scores of shows. She won a Guggenheim fellowship when she was 86 and was still working this year...
...other performances are anticlimactic. Jeremy Brett seems not so much to be playing the role of Mirabel as modeling for it in some 18th century fashion parade, and while Jessica Tandy gives Lady Wishfort a brave try, she lacks the coarse, sensual vulgarity of what is, essentially, a dirty old woman...
...life conforms to his surroundings. He rises shortly before sun rise (about 5 a.m.) and goes to bed early (9 p.m.). "I love to walk the beach naked at night," he said, "with just the wind caressing my body. It's an awesome sense of freedom and very sensual." Sometimes, to get away entirely, he takes his boat to one of his eleven uninhabited islands and sleeps on the beach...
Ikeda's line has a sense of sensual humor like Aubrey Beardsley's. The technique of these etchings is effortless, but full of life. Spring incarnate...
...best film noir showing this weekend is not part of the festival: Orson Welles's The Lady From Shanghai. Rita Hayworth, whose performance in Gilda so defined the fascinatingly sensual but dangerous woman of the period that her picture was painted an atom bomb, lures Welles into a deadly and mysterious web of murder and corporate intrigue. The film's atmosphere, evoking a sinister world whose logic is not apparent at the surface, is exactly what Polanski was trying to achieve in Chinatown. Welles's eccentric camera angles are carried to new extremes which accentuate the uncertain character of reality...