Word: visual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Information, experimentation, and discovery in multimedia present-time creations; the manipulation of visual images, illusions, rhythms; and the energy of spaces. Members may participate in actual rock-dance lightshow presentations...
Everyone is depicted as compromising public ideals for private advantage, and the satire is often obscure and heavyhanded. Yet, as in Fists, there is visual evidence that the director has an unerring flair for the camera, which watches the proceedings with a knowing bel òcchio and impudent authority. His first two movies inspire high hopes that next time this promising young moviemaker will supply himself with better material...
...treatment of sensitivity and violence, social and sexual impotence, within a familiar if abstracted social context. Bonnie and Clyde's merits have been much-discussed, and I can only state, with rank admiration, how beautifully wrought the film is: in the choices Peen has made in determining color and visual style, in the script construction and dialogue idiom, and in the consistently excellent acting...
...Guerre Est Finie by Alain Resnais. Resnais continues to employ a mosaic technique where flashbacks and quick montages of thoughts and objects are inserted, reaffirming Resnais' flair for visual stream of consciousness. Where Hiroshima Mon Amour used mostly flashbacks, La Guerre Est Finie's inserts are mostly flash-forwards: fears and premonitions of Diego, the middle-aged Spanish revolutionary, played so magnificently by Yves Montand. In sight and Sound, Tom Milne describes Diego as caught between two worlds "in more ways than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade...
Before television, millions of Americans got their first visual news of the outside world from a seat in a movie theater. The lights went down, a stirring theme song swelled, and "News of the Day" or Pathe's crowing rooster flashed on the screen. Even the grimness of today's on-the-spot TV coverage of Viet Nam had parallels in the scene of an injured Chinese baby bawling in the ruins of the Japanese-bombed railway station in Shanghai, in films of Hitler's armies marching across Europe and scenes of the fall of Corregidor. Until...