The Bad and The Beautiful (1967) dir. Warren Sonbert
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL can be seen as Sonberts foremost experiment in negotiating the space between his handheld camera and the protagonists in his field of vision. Editing in camera, Sonbert then assembled together the 100 camera rolls into a series of mininarratives. Through elaborately choreographed camera movements, Sonbert dynamically captures each individual couple in unusually intimate, quotidian moments: reading and eating, playing music and dancing, cavorting and lovemaking, and whiling away the time. Sonbert carefully chose the titles for his films, and no clearer reference to Hollywood is evident than with THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Sonberts own take on Vincent Minnellis 1952 movie of the same name. As if to further underscore his homage, Sonberts main title and credit sequences flashes on the screen in a manner similar to the opening of Minnellis film.
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