Word: camera
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Somehow or other, these elements all come together pretty well. Rimes has a natural, saucy way about her in front of the camera, and Peters does a more than creditable job of convincing the viewer she is from the Ozarks. Probably because we know it is a 14-year-old's fairy tale, the story seems artless and winning, rather than just ridiculous. The person who really makes it all work is Rebecca Schull as Rimes' grandmother. Tender, bright, steady, Schull succeeds in making you actually care whether Grandma Teeden pulls through. In a flashback she visits the Rimes character...
...with which he depicts the whites' treatment of the slaves. For the latter, he calls forth tempestuous lightning storms for back-drop, while he shows us shot after shot of pained, anguished, screaming faces in fast montage, while the former is simply and briefly shown with ordinary straight-on camera work. While he graphically lays bare the folly, political entanglements and carnage of the American Civil War which followed close on the heels of the movie's main events, the fact that the Africans returned to Africa to find their own tribe engaged in civil war and their families sold...
...Yeah!" says Jim, 38, a barrel-chested film-distribution manager with a chubby, boyish face. He lowers his camera. "I never knew there were so many different kinds." His eyes are glittering...
...What Is Frightening? A: No Longer Senorita Alien. When alien infighting occurs in the cage of pain constructed by pony-tailed hippies, all you see is a whir of cellophane and custard. When the camera slides down the back of the alien like Fred Flintstone leaving the quarry at quitting time, we can only think of Spielberg's T. Rex--a death blow to the spit-and-steel horror of the original alien beast. Which brings...
...slept in my living room and my bedroom became my camera room," Leaf says...