Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopper's frankly commercial use of rock gives us one more insight into his real sensibility. Easy Rider may be a hippy vision, but it's a bourgeois hippy vision, concocted with both eyes on the market place. Just listen to how Hopper treated sex, and why: "I knew that Peter and I the girls we meet would never be seen totally nude in the nude swimming scene, because I wanted to show the over-forty crowd that it is possible to play like innocent children in the nude without getting into sex." In the echo chamber of our Hollywood...
...place in "truth cinema". For them the presence of the camera (cinema) is only another aspect of truth, one which is expressed either by incessant zooms or reflections of the camera in the nearest mirror. Their films never appear to be structured, since this would betray their vision of reality...
...romantic vision which depends on maintaining mystery, on refusing to give rational explanations of people and cities, is one which denies the possibilities of objective truth. By using documentary materials to establish a romantic truth. Marker places himself in a diametrically opposite position from the American documentarians. For Marker, truth is a subset of cinema. TERRY CURTIS...
From John Stuart Mill to John Maynard Keynes, economists, as well as authors and politicians, have cherished such a Utopian vision of the abundant life. The millennium, it was always assumed, would arrive when full employment combined with high productivity to supply mankind with everything it needed, as well as the leisure time to enjoy it. If any problem existed, it would be finding enough to do. But things are not working out that way. So, at least, argues Staffan Burenstam Linder, 38, a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics who has taught at Yale and Columbia. He states...
Marcia Tucci brings a glowing radiance to Irina, the youngest, who is loved by two men she cannot love and who ardently believes in the restorative power of hard work. One can see her vision of the future in her very eyes...