The Birds is a manifestation of Hitchcock's genius; his control is like a natural force, permeating each exquisite frame.
Surviving on moldering provisions and precious scraps of protein, dodging predators, two-legged and four-, travelerslembodybody a besieged humanity that might have been more stirring if their torment were in a rather less exquisite frame.
But don't rush to make this door-pilgrimage now, as the Ghiberti Gates of Paradise are still under renovation, and three of the panels are currently touring the United States (visiting Atlanta, Chicago and New York), together with elements from their exquisite frame.
Through exquisite framing and deliberate, unhurried pacing, Schrader gets us under Toller's skin just enough for his journey — which will either end in radical clarity or abject despair — to make a bent kind of sense, even as its true contours become soberingly, then alarmingly clear.
Almost wordless, relying on exquisite framing and body language, it concerns the arrival in the household of a bourgeois industrialist of a young stranger (Terence Stamp), who uses sex (with maid, daughter, mother and son), affection and sympathy to liberate the alienated and self-absorbed family members.
A large mirror with an exquisite gold frame stands between the two windows.
D. W. Griffith famously invented the closeup for Lillian Gish, whose delicate expressions shifted with exquisite rapidity from frame to frame.
Certainly, there is no doubting Mr. Egoyan's exquisite taste: his frames are elegantly composed; his camera movements as smooth as practiced pick-up lines.
His set, a simple cube constructed of gleaming rods and lighted by Jennifer Tipton with exquisite nuance, subtly frames, and suggests a context for, the dance.
