Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...native of the Los Angeles area, Jaffee concentrated in Visual and Environmental Studies and was a member of the varsity water polo team. He was described as friendly, outgoing, and a creative student of the graphic arts...
MINIMALIST ON ALL BUT the visual count, Nostalghia offers two hours of strikingly beautiful scenery, laced with exotic-looking characters and outbursts of Russian poetry. The film out stylizes every one in recent memory--at the expense, however, of plot, character, dialogue, and other such standard fare; emerging instead is a scenic tour of Tuscany and of the director's subconscious...
...Cafe Pamplona to shame. Oleg Yankovsky plays a Russian poet named Gortchakov, who is in Italy to write a book about a 17th-century composer, Gortchakov is accompanied by an interpreter, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano). Like Fellini, another comsummate stylist, Tarkovsky seems to have chosen his cast primarily for their visual qualities--particularly Giordano, who has the Surrealist-Madonna looks to complement the Surrealist-pastoral scenery forming the backbone of this film...
...list of winners indicates that the foundation has begun to pay some attention to one of the persistent criticisms of its selections: that they have been too male, too white and too academic. The new fellows include four women (one of them black) and seven nonacademics, among them two visual artists, a Hispanic community organizer, an ornithologist and a Roman Catholic priest...
...movie are Fanny Ardant and Nestor Almendros. The latter produces some gorgeous black-and-white footage, using the backdrop of grungy Marseilles streets, sleazy nightclubs and palm-lined plazas in eternal rain to make for an atmosphere at once sinister and lyrical. The movie works better on a purely visual level than on any other; as a series of stills rather than a "moving picture." Whether one is willing to sit through two hours' worth of photos, even of southern France, is, of course, debatable...