Word: foreground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer need adhere to the convention that a movie should have a beginning, middle and end. Chronological sequence is not so much a necessity as a luxury. The slow, logical flashback has given way to the abrupt shift in scene. Time can be jumbled on the screen-its foreground and background as mixed as they are in the human mind. Plot can diminish in a forest of effects and accidents; motivations can be done away with, loose ends ignored, as the audience, in effect, is invited to become the scenarist's collaborator, filling in the gaps he left...
...shows: plot coherence is not one of Chappaqua's strengths. Nevertheless, he lured Veteran French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault into playing a key role as the sanatorium's head doctor, and persuaded Sitarist Ravi Shankar to write a vibrant background score that often deservedly moves into the foreground. The film is otherwise peopled by a random collection of the current cool, including Novelist William Burroughs, Poet Allen Ginsberg and Jazzman Ornette Coleman in bit parts...
...rock-'n'-roll quintet, its sounds brutally amplified, screeches and howls. The dancers enact their love ritual, while a filmed psychedelic view of their actions is projected-elongated, distorted and weirdly colored-on the wavering backdrop. "This is what we're doing," the action in the foreground seems to say. "And this is what we feel we're doing," proclaims the film. At the end, passions spent, the man walks through the billowing drop and out a series of backstage doors; Astarte recedes into the shadows, awaiting her next visitor. In his new Astarte, Choreographer-Director...
...dark suits, faces like sassy choirboys. The other four Beatles are very much alive: thin, hippie-looking, mustachioed, bedecked in bright, bizarre uniforms. Though their expressions seem subdued, their eyes glint with a new awareness tinged with a little of the old mischief. As for the grave in the foreground: it has THE BEATLES spelled out in flowers trimmed with marijuana plants...
...pictures at times achieve the character of abstract paintings. The enlarged wood-grains of "Detail of Old Wooden Cross' are the strokes of the painter's brush. The suppression of the background of "Rain Forest Kileuea" into middle grays sets off the few black tree trunks in the foreground and gives the jungle a surrealistic quality reminiscent of the paintings of Rousseau...