Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SCIENCEFICTION, above all, is literature of the mind; imagination is central to this comparatively young discipline. So transforming science fiction from the medium of print into that of film presents problems: How do you capture wild visions and put them on the screen? There have been a few successful creative unions: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick again in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, but the list remains short...
...past is any indication of the future, today's battle promises to be one of those free-swinging, knock-down-drag-out affairs. For the last few years Harvard and Cornell have staged wild scoring contests, including a 39-27 come-from-behind victory last year by the Crimson before 32,000 at Harvard...
...essence. On TV we saw the human acts, so very simple--Armstrong saying nothing more than "just a little step for me, but you folks got a long way to go" and his pleasure in flowing slow motion. The human aspect was pretty much a not very well-scripted Wild Kingdom: "See the little gray animals. See how they run and jump." As Armstrong ambled, I almost forgot about the rows and rows of Mission Controllers. But in the glistening photographs, there was no face, only mirrors, on the front of the helmet. And the lunar module was imposing, monolithic...
...animated films, Down in the Deep is amazing as a curiosity: made in 190 in color, each frame was hand-painted. Otherwise it is boring, a sentimental undersea adventure with stilted mermaids. Dreams of Wild Horses (1960), on the other hand, tears at the viewer with the same urgent power with which two stallions in the film dance and kick and bite. It gives us nine minutes of wild horses in the south of France rippling in slow motion through marshes, waves, and spray. In the end, horses leap over walls of fire, sucking their bellies up into themselves, trying...
Smiles of a Summer Night and Wild Strawberries. Two of Bergman's most endearing and least cerebral...