Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beach Birds for Camera. Video screening and discussion with Merce Cunningham, Ruth Page Visiting Artist. Science Center...
...camera work is especially disappointing. With the full expanse of the heather-clad highlands to exploit, Caton-Jones focuses over and over again on hackneyed panorama shots and unconvincing, Hollywood-esque interiors. The few inspired angles on gray sky and barren hillsides only whet the viewer's appetite. Again, directorial detail work is evidenced in the all-too-fake sets of bad teeth and in the caked-on facial dirt (Make-up #57): "Psst! This is the eighteenth century...
...Girls" begins with feet. The camera focuses on one pair of high heels and one pair of clumpy thick shoes two-stepping around a restroom floor to the rhythm of heavy breathing. Obviously this is a couple. Circling upwards, we see one skirt, one pair of baggy jeans. One mane of long hair and one cropped head. Then a horn honks outside, both look up from their face-mashing, and--hey, look--they're both women...
...Randy is having an affair with a married woman whom she meets intermittently in the bathroom of the gas station where Randy works. Complications arise when Evie Roy (Nicole Parker) shows up at the gas station with an alleged flat tire and a phobia of pressure pumps. Again, the camera watches only their legs as Evie runs around, trying to help Randy and yet stay out of the way ("Oh my God I'm such a spaz!" she cries). The reduced view captures the sexual potential underlying the situation as, inevitably, their legs bump or touch in passing. The owners...
...architects. Asked by CNN White House correspondent Wolf Blitzer whether he felt vindicated by former President Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's statement this week that the war was a terrible mistake, Clinton replied, "Yes, I do; I know that sounds self-serving, but I do." The conversation occurred off-camera Thursday after CNN taped an interview. White House press secretary Mike McCurry confirmed the exchange today, adding that McNamara's admission "vindicates the views of millions of Americans, including President Clinton, that the Vietnam War was a sorry episode in American history and that those who opposed...