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...Come off it, Senator.") As NBC Correspondent John Cochran explained on Today (but had not made clear in his profile), he had confined his reporting to people who had actually met Gorbachev. His profile was thus unrounded, not from liberal bias but from something more endemic to television, a visual preference for personalities rather than analysis...
...celebration of conquest, Henry V. This was the text that Laurence Olivier used on film to rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands vision, the play becomes a chronicle of doomed and bloody consequences of meddling abroad. In its most striking visual image, the names of the dead from the Battle of Agincourt are inscribed on a scrim resembling the Viet Nam memorial wall in Washington. This sobering reminder of the wages of war remains onstage during the final lighthearted scenes, when the King shifts from fighter to lover, as if to mock...
Because they are highly visual, operas and ballets are naturals for DVD, but instrumental music is selling strongly too. "In today's times," says Dennis Hedlund, chairman of Kultur International Films, "because of TV, the computer, all the technology, people would rather see their favorite artists perform." What can be seen has grown more interesting as well. Many of the video releases of 20 or 30 years ago were shot with a single, fixed camera and suffered from grainy images and muddy sound. They were also more expensive than audio recordings. Today's DVDs--often drawn from elaborate television productions...
Ballad is one of those films where you kick yourself for having paid for such a saddening experience, but soon the feeling fades, and all that you are left with is the memory of how visual the film was, forgetting the misery. It elicits not a bawling depression, but more of a building frustration, watching as petals of innocence are trampled by the stinking feet of the world...
Like The White Stripe’s “Fell In Love With A Girl” video, “Dream” takes its visual motif from the toy bin. Instead of Legos, “Dream” features bubble-headed marionettes and dollhouse-scale tin cars and airplanes...