Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with officers of that organization and joked about all the times they had disagreed in the past, while asserting that what makes America great is the preservation of free discussion and advocacy. This is what columnist Christopher Matthews, Tip O'Neill's onetime aide, calls seeking to "hang a lantern on your problems." But Dukakis' problem was that he did not know he had problems...
...MAGIC LANTERN by Ingmar Bergman (Viking; $19.95). Like a box full of old slides -- or a Bergman movie -- the Swedish director's searching memoirs are alive with frozen moments, many of them cruelly revealing...
...MAGIC LANTERN by Ingmar Bergman (Viking; $19.95). Like a box full of old slides -- or a Bergman movie -- the Swedish director's searching memoirs are alive with frozen moments, many of them cruelly revealing...
Click click click. The central figure in all these vignettes is the real- life Ingmar Bergman, and never has an autobiography been more aptly titled than The Magic Lantern. For it is as if the great director, whose passion for the transforming power of the vividly projected image was first stirred by the paraffin-lamp projector that was his favorite childhood toy, is rummaging through a boxful of old slides and throwing them on memory's screen in the order they come to hand, without pause or transitional comment...
MOMI also has a simple, compelling narrative thrust. It traces moving images from the shadow plays of ancient Java and the magic-lantern shows of the early 19th century to the big parade of movie stars, social trends and industrial eruptions. Some periods are re-created with elaborate props: a looming female robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a railway car stocked with projector and films to recall the propaganda push of early Soviet cinema, a Salvador Dali collage with the probing eyes he designed for Hitchcock's Spellbound, and a couch inspired by Mae West's lips. Elsewhere, actors...