meretriciousness

As he films Seattle, transforming it into "Rain City," Rudolph is faced with the same decision: is he a realist or an expressionist, inventing the world or recording it? The moral and the aesthetic questions merge, as they must on the higher levels of art.

infelicitous

Cassavetes's commitment to his two principal characters is complete: his camera never once abandons them-never goes behind their backs to offer an editorial judgment-and we must experience the events of the film as they experience them, as integral blocks of time.

But in the movies-and surely this is part of Godard's point-to change forms is to address audiences.

Ruiz's images shake our security.

jeremiad,

Building a fire is as important as convincing an army to lift a siege-Ginepro does both, but both actions are given the same patient attention, the same narrative value.

scurrilous,