The shape looked familiar, familiar in a different way than his repeated viewing of it around Nata's slim neck would indicate.

It's one of those films, like Memento and Mulholland Dr., that pretty much necessitates repeated viewing.

Some spots were confusing enough to require repeated viewings to get the point - and who besides advertising columnists ever bother to do that?

Judith Joy Ross makes photographs so artlessly that they often require repeated viewings before the art becomes apparent.

Once one has admired the strong visual impact and the ingenuity of Mr. Feld's structures (how one dancer or a line of dancers in the air relates to another in terms of movement motifs), "MRI" would not seem to bear repeated viewing.

The real problem with these three productions is that amid all this talk about Gould, they offer only fragments of performances, enough to tantalize but not enough to invite repeated viewing.

Now that the major record labels have started video lines, directors have come to realize that straightforward recordings of symphonic concerts and recitals, while good enough for television, do not invite repeated viewing.