He made his debut as a director with Stolen Desire in 1958, but his mature style emerged with 1963's The Insect Woman and 1964's Unholy Desire, which depicted the lives of lower-class, uneducated women forced to rely on their sexual instincts for survival.
The trouble is that Yelland's desire to depict addiction and redemption is so earnest that it drives out plausibility.
Other than the desire to depict and investigate in ways that previous generations of film-makers felt unable – or unequipped – to, there is a certain previously-unthinkable social currency.
For Fulford-Dobson, a major motivation in pursuing the project was her desire to depict the women of Afghanistan as something other than victims of men, war and religious suppression.
His desire to depict spatial depth convincingly led him to an increasingly accurate rendering of space in his paintings and almost to one-point perspective in his last work, the Annunciation.
Marshall Neilan, the director of this celluloid effusion, in his desire to depict Lady Grayle as a plucky person at the eleventh hour of a fast life, shows her ladyship smoking a cigarette before she breathes her last.Ronald Colman is undoubtedly a bonnie actor, but you just know that he never was born to wear a kilt, but he does for a few scenes.
For them, abstraction involved absence and presence - the evacuation of human beings but also the desire to depict something that would not otherwise be visible or to render visible unseen natural processes like the passage of time, sound waves, or weather patterns.
At the Salon is a brilliant demonstration, therefore, of his stated desire to "depict the true and not the ideal," in which truth is based not on a careful representation of detail but rather on capturing, in a few brief brushstrokes, the essential nature of a subject.
I think that just comes from a desire to depict the diversity of the American middle class that we don't see a lot on screen or see portrayed with much authenticity.
