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...shallow movie that provokes only two questions—“What?” and then, “Dear God, why?”—it’s a surprise that the camerawork, which espouses the philosophy that the more the camera shakes, the more action must be happening, is the work of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Dean Semler (he won for 1991’s “Dancing with Wolves”). Semler and Cohen “pioneered” the camera shake in 2002?...
...child growing up on the island of Savaii, an hour's ferry ride and a world away from Apia, the capital, Sima recalls "chasing after cars, because it was such an unusual sight. And kids are still chasing after cars." These days, Urale does her chasing with the camera. In 1992, after realizing the world wasn't going to come to her as an actor, Urale enrolled at Melbourne's renowned Swinburne film school (now the Victorian College of the Arts). To help raise funds for her studies, friends and family pulled together to organize a "Cyclone Sima" appeal...
...Life (2001), which brought her more trophies, including top prize at the Montreal Film Festival. The filmmaker focused on an elderly white couple slowly drowning under the weight of illness, neglect from their children, and love for each other. But Urale's tenderness and respect for the aged (her camera caresses their wrinkled skin) are typically Samoan. More a cautionary tale than a call for euthanasia, "it hits a real nerve with people," the director says. "And particularly it reminds people to go see their parents. Give them a call. Go drop round a piece of cake or something...
...noticed that Lucas looks a lot like Newman, his favorite actor. Sony wasn't so keen on building a $124 million film around an actor famous mostly for Sweet Home Alabama. So Cohen shot a $1 million screen test, which ended with Lucas, in Navy whites, saluting the camera while the theme from An Officer and a Gentleman played. Arnold Schwarzenegger was sold more subtly...
...THERE A HIGH-TECH DEVICE YOU CAN'T DO WITHOUT? I definitely like my BlackBerry. I like my digital camera. I'm amazed that you can buy something for $200 that can hold 488 8-megapixel photos. It's incredible...