Word: neorealist
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...time Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos came to power in the Philippines in the mid- to late 1960s, Amorsolo's influence over neorealist painters like Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Jose Joya and Fernando Zóbel had been virtually obliterated. Drawing inspiration instead from American artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the cool mathematical lines of Zóbel fitted surprisingly well into the Marcoses' own propagandistic aims. According to Ramon Lerma, director of Manila's Ateneo Art Gallery, the Marcos regime was preoccupied with modernity. "They wanted to present the Philippines as keeping up with the rest...
...vigor of these films is easy to spot; they move with such speed and confidence. They often begin in an efficient fury. Nosotros los pobres...! is a folk opera, a neorealist musical, opens with an elaborate production number, "Ni hablar, mujer," composed by Manuel Esperón, who wrote songs for 34 Infante films (and who, apparently, is still alive at 95). In a few mins., the film introduces us to two dozen characters with singing, strumming, speaking or whistling parts, as the camera glides, pans or swoops to keep up with them...
...recent films remind you of your father's neorealist style of moviemaking...
...went to Vassar and participated in the schoolwide tradition of decorating trays. He also mentions the students at UC Berkeley who are known for their “grout puns,” wordplay written into the putty between bricks. Other trays have surfaced which take a more neorealist view, such as the intricate “trayl of tears” design, which Millstein says was done by someone else, a more talented draftsman. Lowell House students are divided on the issue. “Some people think it’s funny, some people think it?...
...this series is 1935’s “Wife, Be Like a Rose,” differentiated from Naruse’s other works by its light tone and comedic conclusion. In contrast, the majority of his other pictures are characterized by a harshly austere, nearly nihilistic, neorealist perspective, heightened by Naruse’s minimalist style in which his central characters find only defeat...