Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police have pieced together a description of the man by drawing on information from eyewitnesses to the shootings. He is between 20 and 30, from 5 ft. 9 in. to 6 ft., of medium build and lean face, with a thin mustache and possibly a goatee; he may wear a knitted cap. Some witnesses claim that there are two, possibly three assailants...
...running this week at the Harvard Square. With a couple of exceptions, there will be two solid masterpieces a day, so many miles of beautiful celluloid that the only hazard is OD-ing on quality. To shake the habit there's always High Plains Drifter, a reminder that the medium still has some problems. Eastwood may drive a locomotive through the saloon in this one, or annihilate some illegally immigrated Chicanos or something...
Sometimes, I feel I'd almost prefer that system again (as a reader). What happened to it, of course, was that the pendulum swung the other way both in connection with attitudes toward the medium (movies began to be called films), and attitudes toward journalism. The rationale for the latter was very simple: Since reviewing cannot help but be in very large measure a matter of personal taste anyway, why not drop the facade of objective reporting, and let the reviewer display his personality...
...plot elements is the first step towards omitting any corroborating detail, those specific facts within the film which substantiate the critic's interpretation. To those who argue that plot is irrelevant, that image and technique are what count, I answer that contemporary film is still primarily a narrative medium, and a medium which relies significantly on language. There is no literary criticism I know of which does not consider plot--or more appropriately--the events which constitute the work...
...immediately comprehensible to everyone. It knows no language barriers. The possibility of misunderstanding does not exist. In a troubled world, where men are working constantly to determine some common ground of understanding, it follows that the theatre--always the reflector of the times--should be influenced to reactivate this medium of universal symbols...