Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though television has pre-empted much of the visual reportage that was once photojournalism's particular domain, the great photographer still has an unassailable place. He records the exact moment-seized out of the passing flux of the event-that fixes an image or an emotion for all time. Television's eye is quick, but flickering. The photojournalist is a permanent witness...
...artist competes for this odd love-object against a baleful, glove-napping reptile-which, in The Abduction, sprouts wings like a pterodactyl and lurches off into the night sky with its prey. Such etchings, in their impassioned and somewhat poker-faced grotesqueries, are reminiscent of Goya, who gave visual substance to those monsters that wake when reason dreams. But Goya's repertory contains no more alarming beast than this...
Meyer struts his usual cinematic stunts (blisteringly fast cutting) and visual diversions (actresses constructed like goodyear blimps), but to little avail. The leading roles are portrayed by unknowns who are likely to remain so,and the movie mostly takes place in the courtroom instead of the bedroom,an unhappy change of venue for a director like Meyer...
...pleasure, "were not gray or brown." The reflection of early morning sun gave them a "glow of gold." Even Al Worden, orbiting aloft "like a bird soaring without sound," said "I shall never forget the moon that I circled 74 times. There were moments of beauty and moments of visual surprise...
...thus represents something of a departure for both Director Losey and Scenarist Pinter. It is a film of formal, almost sculpted elegance, of precise, leisurely beauty permeated by melancholy. Watching it is very much like reading a long, old-fashioned novel, for its virtues are as much literary as visual: a strong sense of plot, nuances of character shrewdly observed, a delicate sense of theme and dialogue. It is an extraordinarily pleasurable and successful movie in a minor...