Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground, he inverts the camera and shoots the treetops. A self-conscious device like this does not reinforce the narrative; it distracts the viewer and makes him think primarily of the cameraman, not the lovers gazing up at the sky. At any rate, it is the worst kind of visual euphemism...
...short story as if it were a stage piece, not a screen play. One wants to praise him for his blocking, for the gestures he has devised, or certainly for the quick and effective dramatic transitions he has directed, but such refinements continually have little relevance to Visconti's visual schemata...
Despite the ever-present dichotomy between drama and visual effect, White Nights has at least one peerless scene. Mastroianni takes Schell to a rock-and-roll night club, and they watch some obviously rehearsed and ludicrous Italian jitterbugging. After a few painful moments, they join in. From here on until they leave the club, movement and light, words and action all merge together. When the music slows, pairs of faces pressed cheek-to-cheek fill the screen and revolve about each other. A baroque schema out of Rubens, which is attractive and dramatic in itself, also happens...
...four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure in the wit and wisdom that once served as the main dish of education. Arion clearly reflects the exuberant yet scrupulous hand of Co-Editor William Arrowsmith, 38, translator in 1959 of the lusty Satyricon...
...last week was Arion's even better second issue, with English Poet Christopher Logue's new version of The Iliad's Book XVI, which culminates in a bloody battle between Greeks and Trojans. Among Logue's curdling visual effects...