Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expression or gesture the director desires, thus freeing him to create "pure cinema." Jones insists on using full animation, which requires more time and expense than the so-called limited animation often seen on TV on Saturday mornings, in which sometimes nothing moves but the mouths, and the same static backgrounds are employed repeatedly...
GREAT SWEDISH FAIRY TALES illustrated by John Bauer. 239 pages. Delacorte/ Seymour Lawrence. $7.95. These slightly static stories introduce a world of fearless children who come to no harm, questing princes, and, above all, trolls and tomtes. Trolls, as everyone knows, are huge, gnarly creatures. They have tails, live for three or four thousand years, and seem to be fond of putting children into frying pans. Tomtes, on the other hand, are small (ten inches tall), benign and clever. The illustrator, John Bauer, who died in 1918, seems to have been Sweden's answer to Arthur Rackham and Howard...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
...such a long and daunting project, Iceman was made quickly: three weeks of rehearsal, eight weeks of shooting. Occasionally the rush shows, in a composition that is a little too static or in a microphone shadow against a wall. Overall, though, Frankenheimer's production is careful and vigorous. Harry Hope's bar looks dingy but never hokey. The photography keeps the backgrounds in as sharp perspective as possible, letting each viewer select his own point of focus. In that respect, this Iceman resembles the style of Orson Welles' banquet scene in Citizen Kane, in which each face...
...made to transfer the plays to film intact. "My function is to see that there is not an adaptation," says Edward Albee, credited as "screenwriter" for his own A Delicate Balance. "I'm the screen non-writer." Nevertheless, directors and actors all insist that they have produced not static "filmed plays" but new cinematic interpretations. "A three-dimensional object seen from different vantage points" is the way Peter Hall describes Pinter's The Homecoming in its A.F.T. incarnation. "We've not so much opened up the play as closed in on details...