Word: precisionism
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This movie is well worth seeing for its combat shots alone. Taken by the AAF in action over Germany, these pictures capture the perspective of air warfare--the instant disaster inherent in any given moment. The shots of daylight bombing of a German ball-bearing plant are remarkable examples of...
Stubbornly shunning momentary poetic fashions, whether proletarian or metaphysical, he has kept on writing in Williams-style: hard little poems that observe with precision how a housewife looks in the morning, or how The green-blue ground is ruled with silver lines to say the sun is shining.
There is one important feature that distinguishes this production from most other comedies. It has A. E. Matthews. This man is a magnificent bumbler. His bumbling is troublesome in the first act, stimulating in the second, and ingratiating in the third. The eighty-year old actor, portraying a somewhat senile...
There are no pyrotechnics, even, of language; the brilliance lies in the precision. Much of the verse is spoken-and strikes the ear-as prose; where the emotion or situation intensifies, the rhythm does. Yet there are echoes of Eliot's own verse and a few faintly Elizabethan ones...
Twelve O'Clock High is the story of a stubborn flying general's mission: rebuilding a bomber group whose shattered morale under heavy losses threatens to 1) discredit precision daylight bombing, and 2) undermine the whole aerial offensive against German-held Europe. Brigadier General Frank Savage-(Gregory Peck...