Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Stanley Kubrick's cosmic parable of the history and future of man contains some of the most stunning visual pyrotechnics in the history of the motion picture...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. This adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel turns most of the author's poetry to humdrum visual prose, but Alan Arkin as the gentle, selfless mute John Singer lifts the film out of the ordinary...
...program's extraordinary ambiance: it has an artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy, tumbling pell-mell from the opening straight through the commercials till the NBC peacock turns tail. Often the first-time viewer can hardly believe the proceedings. Silly punch lines fly like birdshot. Childish name games produce outrageous amalgams of sound...
Director Gabriel Axel has stayed faithful to the saga form without being ponderous or literary. His shots and sequences flow into verses and chapters. Each segment is introduced by a lengthy, panoramic shot as the visual storyteller sets his scene...
...like the epic hero who must follow his own destiny to its fruition, Axel carries each sequence to a definite visual and dramatic conclusion. At the outset King Sigvor, who has slain their father, invites the sons of Hamund to make peace. Axel gives us separate sequences of them dressing their wounds, bathing, and drinking together, and ends with a slow pan across all the men sleeping side by side...