Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...places where they are, in the ways they move. Then Polonsky cuts away to other characters in another place, destroying the security of the situation, destroying our involvement with the characters on their own terms. Night scenes will be going along, then an incredibly hard cut will hit the screen and it's day: dark/bright, right into your eyes. You stop seeing the characters actions as their self-expression within a secure situation. Their relation to their setting, their light conditions, their time becomes much more abstract and less necessary: emotions cease to follow the qualities of a particular place...
...sand. When lobbying, manipulating and advertising for an Oscar reached fever pitch back in the early '60s, Scott sent a telegram to the Academy withdrawing his name from the nominations. His portrait of Bert Gordon, the ulcerous, vulpine gambler in The Hustler, is one of the modern screen's great essays in villainy, but not surprisingly, Scott failed to receive the Oscar...
...sound of military drums undercuts the hunt, and we are introduced via a slow positive/negative strobe to dignified stills of the white man's armies. Indians on horseback in spectral pinks and oranges gallop to meet the U.S. Cavalry. The ensuing wars are filmed off the television screen and include one brief segment of an American GI gesturing to rows of unmarked graves. Gershfield's use of television implies an awareness that these shoddy images of Injuns stand between us and a real knowledge of how the West was Won from people who already owned the land...
...ordinary court of law it would seem that marshals of the court would be responsible for setting up the projector and screen equipment, I laughed as Tom Hayden entered the courtroom with the screen rolled up under his arm. A young woman wearing black pants, a work shirt, and a big black floppy hat took charge of running the projector...
...guys are tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and skinny (185 lbs.), with blond hair, blue eyes, belled teeth, slightly bowed ears, and a resemblance to a tall pencil or a short television tower. Meanwhile, in one film after another for the past two years, Sutherland has been filling the screen with a low-key presence that has left critics grasping for adjectives and audiences grasping for his name. All that is changing, however, for he is becoming established as one of the finest talents in the cinematic youth movement...