Eyes Wide Open

There's a great, slow beauty to Farber's descriptions of what brings a film to life, whether Hitchcock's ability to create scenes "full of unaware awareness of living" or Renoir's exploration of a house in The Southerner with its proper reconciliation of drama, timing,...

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Published in:Film Comment 2009, Vol.45 (6), p.78-78
Main Author: PETIT, CHRIS
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Critics
Mitchum, Robert
Parker, Charlie
Patterson, Patricia
readings
Reconciliation
Sontag, Susan (1933-2004)
Sturges, Preston
Writing
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Summary:There's a great, slow beauty to Farber's descriptions of what brings a film to life, whether Hitchcock's ability to create scenes "full of unaware awareness of living" or Renoir's exploration of a house in The Southerner with its proper reconciliation of drama, timing, and space; or in Losey's sharpness on stray and hitherto untouched items such as motels, athletic nostalgia, and the impact of nouveau riche furnishings.
ISSN:0015-119X