Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This naturalistic quality of Altman's films is enhanced by his unconventional audio and visual techniques. With their overlapping voices and background noise, Altman's soundtracks have the thick texture of real world sound. Typical Hollywood soundtracks, with their neatly interspersed voices and carefully dubbed-in background music, sound contrived in comparison--almost sterile. Similarly, Altman relies heavily on long and medium camera shots, avoiding the manipulative feel of most Hollywood products. Altman's frames include the things he wants you to see, but he doesn't overemphasize them; he lets you observe for yourself...
...Visual Cortex: Where Theory Meets Experiment in the Central Nervous System--Leon Cooper, Brown, Jefferson...
Undergraduates in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) met in Carpenter Center last night to discuss the formation of Harvard's first artist's union...
...mention boring) that it won Paddy an Oscar for his writing and it's called Paddy's Network. Which is just as well, because Sidney Lumet was the wrong director for Paddy's script--which could only have worked under a flaky, crazy director with a sense of visual satire, not Lumet, who ridiculed television far better in Dog Day Afternoon. He does, however, evoke magnificent performances, especially from Peter Finch (who seems to have dropped out of sight lately), Faye Dunaway (well cast) and Robert Duvall. In any case, you would do well to pass this...
...graduate of a small, fraternity-sorority-oriented college (Marietta College), I want to thank the people at National Lampoon for creating Animal House and thus providing me with a visual-aid supplement to my overly ambiguous résumé. They captured on film what I couldn't on paper...