Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genre may be aborning--the animated feature for which no one has to go to the trouble of drawing all those millions of cels. The wondrous Babe, with its seamless blend of live footage, mechanical and visual effects and uplifting sentiment, pioneered the idea; 101 Dalmatians (which, of course, remakes one of pure animation's classics) cheerfully expands the territory; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has always seemed more of a cartoon character than an actor anyway, may be about to Jingle All the Way to the bank with his variation...
...another Dane, Carl Dreyer. Von Trier's film isn't in that class, but he gets points for wild ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press you up against the characters, to make you feel the heat under their pale skin. So, as in his 1994 Danish TV series, The Kingdom (a bizarre blend of ER and Twin Peaks), he uses a handheld camera that swivels like a bobble-head doll...
Armchair travelers can look forward to some impressive time trips in the season ahead. An abundance of forthcoming coffee-table books devote lavish pictures and well-chosen words to the surviving splendors of past civilizations. They offer visual nurturing and food for thought...
...actually have. It was supposed to be a student activity center. It could be considered such if one considers the huge screen in the back of Loker as I do: an annoying kind of Magic Eye screen, where one becomes dizzy and blind in the attempt to decipher whatever visual image is supposed to be appearing. That's an activity, I guess...
...politician a prop is more than a toy; it's a visual mnemonic device to help voters remember who the politician is and what he stands for. Match the politician with the prop that has become indispensable to him on the stump, and win the $500 government-issued hammer Al Gore used to lug around...