Word: camera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general discussion of California and its impact was written by Birnbaum, who filed voluminously along with other correspondents and then returned to New York with pen in hand once again. The I-am-a-Camera section is the result of a personal odyssey by Los Angeles Correspondent Tim Tyler-a Californian of 22 months. It was a voyage of discovery for Tim. "For the surfing scene, I just had to try it myself," he says. "And I grew to hate those half-pint kids who kept zipping by me while I missed every wave. In Yosemite National Park, my rented...
...leads a double life as a CIA courier carrying secret microfilm. Nabbed by Communist agents on one such mission, she escapes by hiding among a herd of goats. The animals, mostly pets of children in Wyoming where the scene was shot, proved to be unruly hams before the camera. Said the slightly battered actress afterward: "I've been butted around before in Hollywood and on Broadway -but never as accurately as by those goats...
...characters behave together in Lonesome Cowboys is more simply sympathetic than in Warhol's earlier movies. It perceives them in a sustained erotic way: in two scenes the camera zooms in and out on skin and underlying ground while a cowboy makes love to Viva. Hawks's existential bitterness disappears, leaving Warhol looking sentimental. He is sympathetic to the isolated woman, to the boys wandering around looking for security in others' love, toward the cowboys' leader who, older than the rest, sees the band breaking up and the boys abandoning...
...Henreid still looks remarkably like the same suave gentleman who lit Bette Davis' cigarettes in Now Voyager and watched Bogart and Bergman yearn after each other in Casablanca. These days, he spends most of his time in back of the camera, directing episodes of TV programs like Bracken's World...
Paint Your Wagon has the same composer (Frederick Loewe) and lyricist (Alan Jay Lerner) as Camelot. It also exhibits the same lack of knack. Again there are broad performances more appropriate to marionettes than men. Again there is the literal representation of lyrics, as when the camera shows pines waving to illustrate the haunting song. They Call the Wind Maria. And again there is a backward alchemy, turning folklore into exaggeration...