Word: visual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rooks' film, though visual poetry of a sort, is equally a selfish attempt at preserving past experience, the act having therapeutic overtones in this case. Chappaqua is Rooks' autobiography, the story of a 27-year-old alcoholic and drug addict who enters a private Parisian sanitarium to take a cure. The film juxtaposes the reality of the sanitarium, its doctors and attendants, with Rooks' drug hallucinations during the tortuous process of the cure, also with memories of past drug visions while still a full-time addict...
...latest piece, which had been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, received its world premiere in Manhattan under the assured baton of Seiji Ozawa. Confirming Ozawa's observation that Takemitsu "paints in watercolors," November Steps created a 23-minute mood of hushed mystery that was almost visual in its stunning impact. The strings whirred and chattered, spinning out a web of shimmering sonority into which the winds and brass poked tiny pin points, like stars among scudding clouds. Through it all one black-and-grey-robed soloist warbled the mournful, breathy tones of the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute, while...
...girl. It was directed by Francesco Rosi, who is best known for his harrowing bullfight epic, The Moment of Truth. That anybody would bother these days to make so slender and fanciful a film is a miracle in itself; to do it with such a profusion of visual beauty is More than a Miracle. Which, by the way, is its title...
Designer and author Will Burtin's lecture on "The Art-Science Contium" has been re-scheduled for 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...freedom of expression and a more sophisticated audience response to film were the two most important developments, according to Logan. Mrs. Crist attributed the change in audience reaction to the audio-visual orientation of modern society. The younger generation was "weaned with television," she said. The "magic" of stuntmen and special effects has been destroyed. However she added that this technical appreciation did not imply a more sophisticated criticism of intellectual content...