Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With one exception all the prints were non-instantaneous photographs of static subjects. They made it clear that for a half century Stieglitz has been a superb camera technician and artist, scornful of trickery and flash. The 1889 experiment with sunlight seeping through the Venetian blinds in Paula (see cut) was no less experimental, no less successful than Car 2F 77-77 (1935), where a house and trees are seen mirrored in the shining surface of an automobile...
...question has always been: Is Dali crazy? The book indicates that Dali is as crazy as a fox. Dali is a superb draftsman, whose painting technique reveals the sheen of an old master. In both his painting and writing he is sensationally packaging fantasies of his own, plus ideas inspired by Freud. Dali's soft watches may even be considered as a sort of Dali trademark. He has mode an exceptionally good thing of art, is likely to do the same with this book...
...fetishistic crutches featured in so many Dali paintings may be traced to a crutch which he found in the attic of a tower from which he had planned to push a girl. Says Dali: "It was the first time in my life that I saw a crutch. . . . The superb crutch! Already it appeared to me as the object possessing the height of authority and solemnity. [It] communicated to me an assurance, an arrogance even, which I had never been capable of until then...
Mashenka (Artkino) is a simple, tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
Although it boasts both a competent story and superb technical finish, it is the acting which places "Now, Voyager" among the year's best. Bette Davis, again playing a psychological case, cannot be topped as the unwanted daughter gnarled under the domination of a tyrannical Beacon Hill mother. Her knight in armor, Paul Henreid, keeps right up with her, however, adding a Continental touch to the picture's portion of love-making. His double-cigarette lighting trick threatens to become as imitated and obnoxious as Veronica Lake's trademark. Claude Rains. Ilka Chase, and Bonita Granville fill in the supporting...