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...standard critical line on director Robert Wise, who died last week in Los Angeles at 91, was that his films lacked personality, those visual signatures and obsessive themes that set true auteurs apart from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor-earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it-mastered over...
...standard critical line on director ROBERT WISE, who died last week in Los Angeles at 91, was that his films lacked personality, those visual signatures and obsessive themes that set true auteurs apart from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor--earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it--mastered over...
...personally prefer the older visual design,” Kyle J. Foreman ’08, a student randomly selected using facebook.com’s Social Net feature, wrote in an e-mail. “But since they didn’t clutter up the layout or interface of the site I’m not complaining. Google and eBay have shown that some of the most useful sites don’t have to have a lot of glitz...
...colleagues pioneered the first nonlinear digital-editing systems, started Pixar in 1983 and developed the first computer-animation systems, which led to breakout hits like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Hewlett-Packard plans to deliver 1,000 workstations and high-end storage equipment for producing video games and visual effects. Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron 64-bit processors drive Letterman's computer network, the entertainment industry's largest. As a result, one digital artist can churn out visuals that used to require six or more to complete. "Now that our capacity has expanded quite a bit," says Lucas, "I think...
...picture's comedy sketches tend to take a good idea and limp with it. The visual style will not send Steven Spielberg back to film school. But Townsend engages the viewer with a lot of cute fantasy-parodies. In a TV review show, Sneakin' in the Movies, the streetwise critics give thumbs up only to a sci-fi thriller called Attack of the Street Pimps. A TV commercial for the Black Acting School shows its (white) teachers providing the finer points of jive talking and stud strutting. Bobby stars in a Stallone-style epic, Rambro: First Young Blood, and wins...