Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This concerns Alice Cooper and the simulcast insofar as both media are visual. Kopkind's complaint is not so much over the simulcast as it is with Alice Cooper's particular appearance on it. (If he finds creeping fascism in the Allman Brother's brilliant performance last week, then he's in worse shape than I gave him credit for), On the highest level, his major complaint is with Alice Cooper's performance, and what he assumes is gratuitous violence similar to that displayed in the films. More on that later...
...watched the second "In Concere." And I thought, within the limitations imposed by the greedy general atmosphere of television, that the show was excellent. This may've been the music--my love for the Allman Brothers borders on mania--but the tendency to underplay the visual effects was refreshing after the nightmare of split screening in Woodstock. WBCN's choice of what obnoxious commercials to air was just irrational enough to be interesting. "In Concert" has the potential to please that segment of the rock listening public tired of fighting rip off ticket prices and obnoxious audiences. And, even before...
These artistic shortcomings will seriously limit the film's success in persuading uninformed audiences to recognize the war's horror. The uninspired presentation of the evidence is not sufficiently provocative, and the lack of visual documentation strains credulity. To be successful any film about the Vietnam War must overcome a great deal of ingrained prejudice and insensitivity in its audience. Winter Soldier attempts to do this, but fails to fully accomplish its task. We still await a film which, by combining the war's anguish and futility with outstanding cinematic form, will oblige America to confront the truth...
APPARENTLY IT NEVER occurs to Venturi that most people just might not find Las Vegas very attractive. More importantly, his insistence on analyzing the strip as simply a pretty visual image leads him to exclude many of the factors that have given rise to such an environment. He relishes the effects and ignores the causes. And his pleas to the reader to let him analyze his images to the exclusion of social issues only make it harder to be lenient...
...first-person point of view, Maria's soundtrack commentary fills in gaps where dramatization would only waste time. In the book Maria talked about Carter's first films; here we see and use them to piece together her past. Her descriptions of her mentally disturbed daughter, Kate, find visual equivalents in her visits to the institution where Carter has committed their daughter. On the other hand, with the fast-cut flashbacks to Maria's coerced abortion, the style distracts us from her horror. The book played L.A.'s bleakness against the desert's, and the film tries some...