Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director and writer Sally Potter stretches the limits of the camera and the lead actress, Tilda Swinton, to make a movie enjoyable to people who like to laugh with joy as well as those who are just along for the visual ride...
...only misleading part of the special. Sun filled the two hours with a mixture of fact, conjecture, fantasy and arrant nonsense, while offering no clues as to which was which. "Eyewitnesses" who claimed to have seen or even touched the ark paraded in front of the camera. Unfortunately, the audience was told, an earthquake, attacks by terrorists, the Russian Revolution and other inopportune events had frustrated various attempts over the years to bring back clear pictures or other definitive proof of the ark's existence...
While most of the credit for the pictures rightly goes to those behind the camera, cover coordinator Linda Freeman and assistant picture editor Mary Worrell Bousquette, who work behind the scenes, also deserve accolades. Freeman, for instance, had the challenging task of making arrangements for the group portrait of child movie stars by Heisler that appears on page 62. Says she: "My greatest reward is working with these talented artists." Bousquette edited the pictures that appear inside. "I wanted our story to show the many faces of fatherhood," she says. At least in this issue, those fathers are seen...
...create key scenes from their fictitious lives, provoking gunplay and an onstage debate about theatrical reality. In Last Action Hero, Jack Slater, the Schwarzenegger character from the movie-within- the-movie, bursts into the "real" world, where he encounters the actor Schwarzenegger, provokes gunplay and has an on-camera discussion of cinematic reality...
...preparation, it still comes as a shock near the end to see Tom's emaciated face staring at the camera and to hear Mark's quavering voice: "This is the first of July, and Tommy's just died." The succeeding scenes are equally brutal -- a medical official taking down the vital statistics, the corpse being wrapped in a body bag. The film ends, heartbreakingly, with a flashback to Tom and Mark dancing in front of the camera in that spirited documentary of 15 years earlier...