Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film is masterful in all its tactics: use of theme, imagery, camera angle and metaphor. What better way to situate the story of romantic outlaws than to contrast their vivacity with the stark barrenness of the Depression and Dust Bowl 1930's. The initial fire that sweeps up Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) is cooled when they run into early troubles at the start of their escapades. The first bank they try to rob together has gone bankrupt. They stop at a local person's farmstead and finding that the bank has foreclosed upon it, they...
...independent" in this sense. McElwee is unique because, unlike documentary filmmakers who concentrate on external phenomena, McElwee's main subject is himself. He conveys his own thoughts and feelings (voiced over), and the reactions of his friends and family, to events that involve him. He looks through the camera to show the audience exactly what he sees, hears and thinks...
...production company run by a blustery mogul (Albert Brooks), who is attracted to a truth-telling market researcher (Julie Kavner). Will Matt win the big role? Will the love teams stay united? Will the child, in a plot twist that echoes Broadcast News, be able to cry on camera...
...Oregonian interview with Eckardt, Harding's patience cracked. Asked about the charges, she brushed past reporters, snapping, "I haven't spoke with anyone, O.K.?" When the questions continued, she shouted, "I'm not answering your questions, I said." A few hours later she smiled sweetly into the camera for ABC's Prime Time Live and said, "I believe God is watching over me. Maybe he believes it's time for something good to happen...
...rare sequel that advances rather than diminishes the original. But it doesn't entirely escape redundancy. Urquhart hires a pretty young political operative (Kitty Aldridge) who is seduced by his power just as investigative reporter Mattie Storin was in House of Cards. Urquhart's asides to the camera, charming in the first part, become somewhat precious and predictable by the end of the second...