Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course he is nothing of the sort. His innocence is only a mask for a settled malice directed against a society that he thinks has gone mad. He keeps a punching bag in his studio, and every once in a while "beats the hell out of it." His visual jokes are intuitional and may indeed have no rational point. But they end up as a kind of emotional fishhook, snagged in the memory. They are images not wholly explicable, but impossible to dislodge...
...made films on almost any topic. In theory, a family equipped with EVR will become a self-contained educational center: Junior will study the sex life of grasshoppers (the subject Goldmark drolly demonstrated last week), Father will settle back for an evening of golf lessons or an audio-visual version of LIFE and Mother will sharpen her French through an EVR correspondence course. CBS has already drawn up a manufacturing agreement with Motorola, Inc., under which Motorola will turn out EVR for institutions in less than two years and for the public market by late...
...writing of the script is a difficult period but a useful one, for it compels me to prove logically the validity of my ideas. In doing this, I am caught in a conflict--a conflict between my need to transmit a complicated situation through visual images, and my desire for absolute clarity...
...even though his movies are full of beautiful images, their ideas tend to ride on the soundtrack. Truffaut's Jules and Jim was adapted from a novel, yet its moments of revelation (the morning scenes at the beach-house, for instance) are visual. When Bergman tries to escape the literary--in The Silence, with almost no dialogue--the result is a crude, sometimes ludicrous reliance on symbols...
...less cosmic new approach not only brings us closer to Bergman, it brings him closer to his favorite script-writer. The visual effects in Hour of the Wolf made points the dialogue just suggested. Persona was perhaps Bergman's first work that had to be a film, not a novel set to beautiful pictures...