Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wacky content, the film has strangely subdued feel; the lack of energy is palpable to the viewer. Brian Tufano's camera, which was so sharp and dynamic in Trainspotting and so creepily sedate in Shallow Grave is only able to capture flat, washed out images. Setups that ought to be bold and striking are rendered as drab and sluggish...
Amidst all of this mess, Holly Hunter stands out as the film's shining star. In the film's most hilarious performance by far, she creates strangely uproarious and memorable scenes with ease. There's nothing like seeing a barely-five-foot woman point a Glock at the camera and snarl, "Don't fucking move...
...were willing to offer some kind of moral resolution for its characters. By the end, a child has died and one of the main characters is finally, in this world of restrained emotions, reduced to tears. For a while it seems as if the ice storm--which the camera dwells upon in the second half of the film--will transform the lives of the Hood family. Instead, it leaves them at the very bottom of the familial void to which they must belong...
...facade of the stadium, strategically positioned, infused the entire space with incredible vibratory energy, so compelling and powerful it was easy to confuse the thumping of the bass drum with one's own heartbeat. The experience was so enveloping and oversized,. with the oval screen providing live close-up camera shots of the performers, that it might have been easy to overlook the relatively miniscule Rolling Stones themselves, to not fully realize that the ubiquitous sound and energy was actually being created right there before us by real men with guitars and drums. Yet somehow the Stones, Mick Jagger...
Based, like the 1970 The Honeymoon Killers, on the case of lonely-hearts murderers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, this poisonous, beautifully acted tragicomedy exerts a cold fascination. Virtually every scene is a single shot (no intercutting to cue emotion); the camera prowls like a smooth, stealthy voyeur. Yet the film is true to the ferocity of mad love. There is a deep crimson in the couple's passion that, in the end, can only fade to noir...