Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...windows are frosted or look out on nothing; one gets the impression that even if the film had been shot in color, everything would still be gray and white. The camera seems to go beyond seeing: it touches, it breathes the dark air. Welles creates drama and visual beauty with the camera by moving it expertly. The sets are superb, from the defense lawyers cluttered, echoing house to K.'s office, a thousand identical typists under a high roof, with darkness showing through the open walls. There is thoroughly appropriate, unobtrusive music by Jean Ledhut...
...Trial has weakness, but they are far outweighed by the film's strengths. It is a memorable visual and intellectual experience...
...director has cleverly devised a visual image to particularize the main action of the drama. At the beginning of the first hospital scene, the nurse slowly raises a fly-swatter, viciously slams it down on top of her desk, and then grins, as she wipes the swatter against the desk's legs. The verbal re-enactment of this violence becomes the driving force of the play. Each character fights another--and the only response is that which is generated by frustration and hatred...
Robert G. Gardner, director of the Film Study Center, said Wednesday that "it is going to take an enormous change in traditional educators" before the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts can achieve maximum usefulness. Gardner made his remarks during a Brattle Street Forum discussion of "The Future of the Visual Arts" broadcast over WBGH-TV from the Carpenter Center...
Despite many personal details (Bertrand Russell, we learn, smokes a pipe and reads detective stories) and ostentatious visual descriptions of each philosopher's appearance (which the author obviously had to ask for), it is difficult from Ved Mehta's elliptical notes to get a good grip on just what the men are or what they stand...