Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vivid Cameos. Little more than a dozen years later, he is an Academy Award winner and one of the few directors whose name appears above the title of a movie on the credits. "All the honors and glory a film director could hope for were mine at the age of forty," Capra writes in his rough-hewn prose. "I even made the cover of TIME...
This section of the book is good, gossipy reading. There are vivid cameos of Mack Sennett trying to spy on his writers; of Harry Langdon, the baby-faced vaudevillian, suddenly famous and going to pieces; and of Harry Cohn, the libidinous vulgarian who ran Columbia Pictures. It is the latter part of the book, when Capra returns to Hollywood from Army Signal Corps duty during World War II, that makes The Name Above the Title such a poignant reminiscence...
...Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, ego so often intrudes in The Name Above the Title that history is sometimes obliterated. Still, no other book has given quite so vivid a picture of the way Hollywood farms out its once infallible film makers. Capra, now 74, has not made a movie in over a decade. The kind of happy ending he perfected on screen, the whimsical triumph at the final fadeout, eludes him in life...
...With each new film. Ken Russell has become increasingly obsessed with madness-which is dangerously like a kind of madness in itself. Now, in The Devils, he has made a delirious fresco about the insanity of the witch hunts in 17th century France. It is a movie so unsparingly vivid in its imagery, so totally successful in conveying an atmosphere of uncontrolled hysteria that Russell himself seems like a man possessed...
...Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling for the Depression-era South, and the touches of nostalgia that hover like hummingbirds over his narrative are most often exactly right -like Addie's partiality to strawberry Nehi and Nu Grape or a quick, vivid portrait of a small-time fair...