Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is so much interesting opera that could and should play in a theater of 2,000 seats instead of 4,000," says BAM opera artistic director Matthew Epstein. "The visual and musical values are different than in a bigger house, and now the gigantism of the '70s is turning around. These are troubled times for the bigger houses in Paris, London, Vienna. Some of the most exciting work today is being done in smaller theaters like Cardiff or Brussels. There is less emphasis on superstars and more on ensemble...
...because his paintings are all based on silk-screen reproduction of photographic images. Whether flat and grainy, as in the '60s, or worked up with a creamy slather of broad-brush pigment, as in the '70s and '80s, they are essentially simulations of the act of painting, types of visual packaging...
...Lawrence was the ultimate epic -- cinema at the apex of its ambition and intelligence. Lavish in visual beauty, the film also boasts economy of style: it knows how much can be shown in a shot, how much can be said in a few words. But the picture was a harbinger too. If Lawrence was the last colonial God-man, he was also the movie epic's first moody hero, father to countless sacred screen madmen. And in the picture's political wrangling and massacre scenes, we see hints of American history in the late '60s and American movies today...
...most formidable disc library. Its version of Orson Welles' masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons contains, among other items, the entire shooting script, a full set of storyboards, and stills of crucial scenes deleted by the studio. The Criterion edition of Blade Runner has a lavish set of designs by "visual futurist" Syd Mead; the disc of 2001 was personally . overseen by Stanley Kubrick and includes almost a thousand pages of essays and production memos. "We're a significant part of an as yet insignificant business," says Voyager co-founder Robert Stein. But other companies are fast picking up on his lead...
...showcase for remarkable performers and the visual panache of its creators, Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli (Tango Argentino, Flamenco Puro), this is gorgeous and joyous entertainment. And in its reverence for veteran talents, the kind who have bounced from headlining to working as kitchen help and back again, the show is faithful to the folkloric traditions of tap, jazz and blues...