Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Lanchester attains no minor milestone. In Little Me Sid Caesar created a six distinct comic roles. Lanchester goes one step further--he creates six indistinct ones. On several occasions, though, he is very funny to watch as he combines verbal and visual dexterity. He makes the Shakespearian buffoon, Tedious, into a physically contorted Elizabethan-pretzel...
...Italian Director Federico Fellini (aided by Marcello Mastroianni) lays bare his psyche in this richly visual, often perplexing film about a moviemaker who cannot get started on a new project...
David Hays' sets and Joe Layton's choreography combine to produce striking visual effects. Often the stage is starkly simple, as in the first scene, when Barbara and David stand beneath their separate spotlights, shrouded in darkness and oblivious of each other. Strolling flutists and clarinetists share the stage with the singers. Among other things, No Strings represents a successful experiment in integrating music and action; all musical accompaniment occurs on stage, and often the musicians participate in the action itself...
...current production is a visual delight throughout. Lloyd Burlingame has devised a versatile megalithic set of steps and blocks that are easily moved on rollers, and has designed a handsome wardrobe of costumes. Gilbert Hemsley has provided beautiful lighting without being fussy; and Herman Chessid's incidental music is better than he has provided for the Shakespeare plays--especially noteworthy is the harp and flute music that perfectly evokes the desert atmosphere around the big Sphinx...
Mondo Cane has one big flaw: the script, written by Jacopetti. The real impact of this film is visual; its point is adequately made by the sequences themselves and the way they are cut. Any narration beyond a minimal identification of what is on the screen is superfluous, and Jacopetti's is not only superfluous but also annoyingly stupid, full of bad puns, idiotic prejudices, clumsy writing, and leaden sarcasm...