Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This kind of quietly self-punishing, ultimately uplifting pop came out of Glasgow on a regular schedule between about '79 and '81, most of it on the Postcard record label. Postcard featured four bands: Josef K, the Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera--pre-Dire-Straits-on-downers Aztec Camera--and our rangy heroes, whose Postcard releases have been harder to find than true love for the last, oh, ten years. Postcard's head honcho revived his label last year, and two of the results so far are The Heather's on Fire--which collects all of Orange Juice's early...
...original throughout, with thankfully little narration (delivered when necessary in the melodious tones of Kevin Kline). Unfortunately, the movie's salvation is also its biggest problem. In preserving the integrity of the ballet, director Emile Ardolino, of "Dirty Dancing" fame, has done little that is terribly filmic. Although the camera's close range lets one see the dancers' facial expressions and the beautiful costumes, the set is surprisingly unimaginative, and fails to take advantage of the medium. The whole movie looks like a well-done stage version on film, and in fact, it is. It was filmed on the stage...
...first stint as director since the Oscar-winning Unforgiven, Eastwood is pleased to let scenes amble in real Texas time, to let destiny fall slowly on Butch. Costner, though pulling a superficial switch on the pensive heroes he usually plays, is at such ease before the camera that Butch is made both compelling and agreeable. This World isn't perfect: it zigzags toward its climax and dodders in pathos when it gets there. But it's a handsome calling card for two Hollywood artists in prime form -- one at the high noon of stardom, the other in the tumbleweed afternoon...
...form musical is to evolve, it will owe at least as much to R.E.M.'s video Everybody Hurts, say, as to Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis. A big problem with Newsies, admits Menken, was that "it didn't resemble a video enough. There weren't enough camera angles...
...with a view of the sea. In an early scene Ada comes to the beach and finds her piano in a crate. Opening it, she plays ecstatically; her daughter dances gaily, garlanded in seaweed; and Baines gets a first inkling of the lifeline that art is for Ada. The camera ascends to Campion's favorite bird's-eye view to reveal a huge sea horse magically sculpted from sand and shells. Life, this beautiful image suggests, is a pattern we cannot see, except through the artist's Olympian...