Word: visual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Language, to the credit of Eisenstein, is no barrier for a foreigner's complete understanding of his work, for his camera, combined with the tumultuous score of Sergei Prokofieff, fully expresses the emotional current, and the plot is distinctly visual. Photographic effects, indeed, are the strongest element in the picture, with dramatic composition in brilliant silhouetted contrast present in almost every scene. Artistic technique, in this respect, reaches its best with a show of Ivan hovering over a globe against the white interior of the imperial palace...
Whiter than History? Actually, the film is a visual opera, with all of opera's proper disregard of prose-level reality. As such, it is an extraordinarily bold experiment, fascinating and beautiful to look at. But Eisenstein has denied himself so much that is native to cinema and has concentrated so fiercely on political pedagogy that the film is also tiring and disappointing. It is saddening as well, when compared with his earlier films, which were not only more vigorous, free and poetic, but far more "revolutionary...
...Harvard health care--the lack of systematic x-ray examinations for University members. Students are no less susceptible to disease than workers in any other sedentary occupation. Yet the prevailing type of examination given to Freshmen and veterans will uncover only such symptoms as are subject to external visual detection...
...mixture becomes pretty potent with the addition of really breathtaking photography. With a choice of angles and backgrounds that highlight the action and delineate the story-line, the photographer has shown the good sense to stand where it matters most and has turned a French countryside stereotype into a visual delight. The second feature has finally had its come-uppance...
Dawning Luminary. The origins of this dawning luminary lay in biographical penumbra beyond the visual range of Hollywood scouts. She was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, Sept. 30, 1921. Her family was neither down-&-out nor well-to-do. Her Scottish father's handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet...