Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their compositions. But in his other films, the richness of photography served to evoke his themes. In Lacombe, Lucien, the pale yellows and faded textures reflected the sultry French provincial world where even fascism unfolds at a meandering pace. And in a sleeper called The Thief of Paris, the visual opulence and use of decorative objects created just the sort of decadent bourgeois dreamworld that Malle's meant to attack. But in this film the visual effects, like baby, are just pretty. All Malle's often exquisite camerawork is good for are fleeting moments of aesthetic satisfaction...
...every-dayness of this sort of corruption, as he did with the drift toward fascism in Lacombe, Lucien. In that film he moved us through understatement. In this film, he doesn't seem to have anything clear enough to understate. A movie like Lacombe, Lucien gave physical and visual life to the idea of the banality of evil. But in Pretty Baby there is never an idea to give life to. The only conclusion we can draw is also the verdict on the film. Banality itself is in fact boring...
Orthokeratologists say that they have been able to improve vision so dramatically that many people once with visual acuity of 20/200 or worse are now able to walk around without glasses or contacts for the better part of the day. Says Gale Dixon, 32, a part-time actress and singer who once had 20/800 vision: "When I first started, the world was totally out of focus. Now I get up in the morning and can see fairly well. It gives me a lot of freedom." Critics do not deny that limited improvements may indeed occur, but they point out that...
LAWTON COOPER'S blocking is not much to speak of--in fact, it is unspeakable. Most of the time the actors say their lines while rooted in a single spot. Although they occasionally shift from one foot to the other. To see any visual style or interesting patterns of movement, you will have to look sideways through the open doors of Lehman Cafeteria to the bustling passers-by in Harvard Yard. The Good Doctor works best when the action is continuous, but in an amateur production a director might have to choose between two evils: black-outs after each scene...
Exhibitions: Margaret Clapp Library--The Visual World of William Morris, prepared by Judith Kahl, March 27 through April...