Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For a thousand years the feudal capital of Japan, Kyoto is still the nation's capital of learning and culture. Its small luxury shops are almost as bright, smart and busy as when Kyoto was called Japan's Paris. Its many huge temples make Kyoto, like Rome, a...
Right now the Japanese have their own peculiar understanding. One local group wanted to put police at the adult school door to keep out Communists, "as Communists would disturb free discussion." In Kyoto's Kitano Junior High, Correspondent Welles heard the following discussion among adults:
As to the individual awards themselves--a quick glance over the past 20 years will show some selections which should even embarrass some of the moguls. However, that can be said of any group which insists on awarding prizes to its contemporaries. Of Hollywood's handful of geniuses--Garbo, Chaplin...
Apart from the actual plot, the aspect of "Citizen Kane" for which it will always be famous is Welles' use of his cameras. The photography is magnificent. Although professionals usually say that these camera effects are consciously "unusual," to an ordinary moviegoer they make the film memorable. The wildly shifting...
Undoubtedly if all film directors were to adopt Welles' camera technique, films would become unbearable. Even in "Citizen Kane" the overpowering effects become a little heavy toward the end. If carried to its logical extreme, this sort of thing results in horrors like "Ivan the Terrible." However, as long as...