evocation

In its gorgeous, glorious evocation of autumn days and, especially, nights, its Vince Guaraldi score and Bill Melendez animation, it takes Schulz’s art somewhere new without betraying it; perhaps most important, Cathy Steinberg is back from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as the voice of Sally Brown, the series’ secret star.

Director Ross, who spent years as a photographer and teacher, came close to reinventing documentaries with his superb 2018 debut “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” an evocation of Alabamian Black life that eliminated the line between viewer and subject.

“A lot of the big turning points in the movie are based on truth,” Móglaí Bap says of the movie’s evocation of their rise.

A year before, the newly opened Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles had acquired Viola’s slightly earlier “Room for St. John of the Cross,” a noisy evocation of spiritual disruptions in modern life as prophesied by a 16th Century Spanish mystic.

The film is an evocation of character, place and time, the tempo alternating between moody and lively, like our central odd couple, laconic Benny and chatterbox Kathy.