Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visual Static...
...Desert, has finally made a film which can be called entirely cinematic. With the added dimension of color, Antonioni has been able to do away with plot, characterization, and even music, elements which have detracted from the cinema for fifty years. Instead, the director concentrates on the purely visual, on the purely aural, and on the relationship between people and their environment, all proper pursuits of film...
...film rests in Antonioni's use of the camera and the cutting room to create a series of extremely subtle impressions. Antonioni selects his images with the precision of an electronic microscope and puts them together with almost transcendent sensitivity to force his audience to make strictly visual comparisons. If you would criticize Antonioni for merely conveying a tone, you must remember that a painting does no more...
What gives the U.S. sixth-graders the advantage, Professor Gibson specu- lates, is the "possibly higher level of training of U.S. teachers," combined with more sophisticated audio-visual aids and teaching techniques. Moreover, "students can only learn so much by a certain age," and the head start the British get in reading and writing makes no difference by the time children reach the sixth grade...
...good as Richard Burton in Camelot, and his singing voice is far better. He handles himself with grace and gallantry despite some crippling vulgarities in the Dale Wasserman script. Considering the pitch of her voice and the plunge of her neckline, Joan Diener is less an auditory than a visual treat. Irving Jacobson's Yiddish-accent Sancho Panza presents another problem...