Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncompromising. Black-and-white shots of a rainy New York City in the 1950s punctuate the scenes. Anne Bancroft, as the mother, looks lost inside her drab overcoat, while Joan Cusack and Adrian Pasder etch small, sad portraits of her well- meaning daughter and son-in-law. The camera focuses patiently on everyday details: a woman reaching into the refrigerator for a glass of milk or trying to thread a sewing machine. Then there is Chayefsky's fabled naturalistic dialogue, which faces up to cliches ("I don't want to be a burden on my children"; "My mother worked like...
...York Times's campaign coverage has spotted several such commercials. One features Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana) staring into the camera and saying. "In this town, the special interests are always out to get their hands on your money." As he speaks, a gray and grainy dome looms forebodingly on the screen...
...common shot places a figure in the extreme foreground and the extreme background. Women run or walk tensely down long, narrow hall-ways that force the gaze nearly through the plane of the movie screen. The camera leans over a rocky cliff, peering over men's shoulders to a search party far below. Sandro looks over his shoulder to a women standing in front of a painting who turns to look...
...Pleasant Hill, USA" is the other documentary in the series. It is the poignant story of a bank robbery and shooting spree committed by a high school student in a small town in Ohio. This film deserves special attention for its striking and beautiful camera stills which capture the simplicity of the town and demonstrate the potential of this director, Joshua Wintringham...
...more in Mazda's factories in Japan. (Ford is Mazda's main shareholder, with a 24.5% stake.) Konen Suzuki, who became president of Ford Japan after spending 29 years at Toyota, has launched Detroit's first TV campaign in Japan, in which local Ford owners proudly tell the camera, "This is my first Ford." Most of the ads show right-hand-drive models such as the Probe and the European-made Mondeo, which conform to Japan's drive-on-the-left standard. Until last year, Detroit did not offer a single U.S.-made right-hand-drive car in Japan...