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Word: vistaed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purely technical excellence carried an ethical value of its own, then War and Peace would rank among the finest pictures ever made, because technically it is superb. Photographed in Vista-Vision on a film that for once neither glares nor blurrs the colors together, the movie displays a seemingly endless array of attractive palaces and costumes. Furthermore, Vidor's staging of the Battle of Borodino, especially a sequence showing the French troops storming a Russian artillery position, includes perhaps the best battle scenes ever filmed...

Author: By Thomas K. Schawabacher, | Title: War and Peace | 10/2/1956 | See Source »

Yang Kwei Fei (Daiei; Buena Vista). Once upon a time, a thousand years ago. there lived a lonely emperor in old Cathay. His wife had died in the bloom of her youth, and he was inconsolable. In the morning when his ministers brought him the leading questions of the day, in the evening when they brought him the fairest maidens of the realm, the emperor only sighed and sent them away. Only in his music could he find surcease, and with his lute he whiled the sorrowing hours away. Aha. thought an ambitious general, if I can find the woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...This is a good time to think about the future," said Dwight Eisenhower, "for this convention is celebrating its 100th anniversary." So saying, he staked his speech on pointing the Grand Old Party away from all the inhibitions of its recent past toward a vista that it had never really allowed itself since the exuberant days of Theodore Roosevelt. From Henrik Ibsen he borrowed his text: "I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Handle of Faith | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Great Locomotive Chase (Buena Vista). Walt Disney has intelligently made a Technicolor, CinemaScope film out of one of the best adventure stories of the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Knew Too Much (Paramount), a remake by Alfred Hitchcock of his 1935 thriller, is almost buried beneath the weight of Technicolor, Vista-Vision and an endless Storm Cloud Cantata performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Covent Garden Chorus. Indulging his taste for contrast, Hitchcock takes an American family-so glossily normal that it might have popped out of a refrigerator advertisement-and sets it down in the eternal grime of Marrakech, Morocco. The family: Jimmy Stewart, a surgeon from Indianapolis; Doris Day, his songbird wife; Christopher Olsen, their typically cute son who thinks North Africa looks just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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