Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause or blame. The Four Hundred Blows presents an isolated slice of its hero's life, and the film comes to no set conclusions, contrary to the then-conventional practice of "packaging" the plot. Instead, Truffaut develops the poetic possibilities of his subject, calling on a wide range of visual metaphors to convey his subjective message. In addition, the scene in which the hero is interviewed by a prison psychologist introduced the so-called cinema-verite technique of prolonged interviews which populates many New Wave films...
...have eyes, you don't much mind the visual digressions Mann makes from his threadbare plot. Themeless though he would appear (by contrast to Antonioni, whose images contribute so much to characterization), and gratuitous though his beautiful compositions may be, Mann has done an exceptional piece of work...
...make his device into a straitjacket. The contours of his canvases do not always match the contours of his hard-edged colors. In Cloud No. 2, for instance, a yellow, earlike shape embraces but does not parallel the straight ridge of white, thus throwing into shadows and visual doubts where a shape ends or bends...
Jacques Demy was trained as a violinist but now spends his time composing movies as themes-and-variations. The repetition of visual patterns in his brilliant Bay of the Angels struck many viewers as monotonous. Shot in black and white, Bay had a stark, realistic aspect that obscured the director's intentions, leading viewers to anticipate a narrative realism that Demy had little interest in presenting...
...also described the buildings as too large for their surroundings, a "visual blunder" that she predicted Harvard would regret...