Word: vividness
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...Moviemaker Malaparte, who wrote, directed and composed the music for the film, has clothed his theme in vivid imagery. The picture is one long, visual lament, beginning and ending in the mountains among the crosses of Allied soldiers who died fighting in Italy. The images of death are everywhere: in the head of a butchered calf, in skeletons in glass-walled burial crypts, in the traditional Game of the Cross, with its procession of masked and black-robed figures. Malaparte uses sounds as freshly as sights: dramatically, the funereal, off-screen beating of drums dominates an entire dialogue sequence...
...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...surging crowd in the streets of New Delhi, while planes shower his bier with rose petals. Then, after his body has been burned on a funeral pyre of bricks and sandalwood sticks, the ashes are scattered on the sacred waters where the Jumna and Ganges meet. One brief, vivid shot shows most of the material possessions that the frail little man in the white loincloth left behind him: sandals and spectacles, a book and a bowl, a tinny dollar watch...