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...achieved more entrancing heights than Wyler's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' best novel. Citizen Kane 1941; Orson Welles Everyone's default choice for the world's greatest movie. Maybe so, maybe not. But it was (and remains) the movies' most fabulous blend of style and substance, full of beguiling camera and editing tricks as Welles traces the rise and fall of a man whose lust for power betrays his best instincts. Ikiru 1952; Akira Kurosawa In his final days, a government functionary discovers the joy of living. Kurosawa, justly celebrated for his muscular action spectacles, achieves a delicate and totally...
...event, I realized in hindsight, is clearly better fodder for the visual media. The camera crews, shutterbugs, and paparazzi clicked and whirred furiously, trying to investigate and memorialize Maria Sharapova’s cleavage. Meanwhile, I was wracking my brain trying to think of questions for Annika Sorenstam, for whom the room had gone silent after four or five queries...
...tape showed a man who resembled Hussain talking with three other men at around 8:20 a.m. On the tape, the men confer briefly, then go their separate ways. At 8:50, the first three bombs went off. Police quickly pieced together the men's previous movements. A cctv camera had recorded them earlier that morning at Luton, 45 km north of London, where they caught a train to King's Cross. They were reportedly seen with a fifth man, still wanted by police. Authorities seized two rental cars left in the parking lot at Luton. One had been hired...
...late '90s, after The Newton Boys flopped, Linklater was unable to get financing for any of his ideas, so he used a digital video camera to make Tape (three friends in a motel room talk about an old date rape) and the footage he would eventually turn into animation for Waking Life. "I was back to square one. There I was with my little videotape walking around the streets of Austin with my friends," he says. "I'm sure I'll be there again. Life is cyclical...
...table with all these photographs, I thought would be an incredible closeup where I would do some big-time acting. And it wasn't that at all. I asked him, "Why am I doing this?" He just said, "Do it and see what happens." He usually sits by the camera, but this time he didn't. He was sitting in a corner of the big room; we didn't even see each other. And somehow we had this incredible connection. It was like smoke signals, like we were Indians. I was caught in an emotion, which I wouldn't have...