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...Sparing you my construction-worker's appraisal of each actress' current state of preservation or decay, I'll just say that the wonder is Cattrall, who's managed to retain her erotic shine from her first film, the 1975 Rosebud, undiminished. The camera examines her face, tracks up her tanned legs, nuzzles or nestles in her cleavage, and can find no flaw, as if she were the prize creation of a CGI wizard. One scene - where Samantha, as a treat for Smith, lies nude on their dining room table, her body garnished with sushi - could be a chic photo essay...
...Obsessed as it is with lust and looking, the movie naturally wants its stars to look great. They're not kids any more: Parker and Davis are 43, Nixon 42 and Cattrall 51. (I know, Harrison Ford is 65, but you know that the camera and the audience are kinder to aging male stars than females.) But their characters are youngish, at least in their minds. Like a lot of us, they refuse to grow up or old; they need to stay fit and sexy, to sustain a satiny, early-20s robustness straight into senility. And whether Carrie...
...wing enterprise. At Cannes, you simply will not find, say, a film on Northern Ireland's Troubles that is sympathetic to its English occupiers, or an Israeli film hostile to the Palestinians. This year, Hunger, the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike in 1981, won the Camera d'Or (debut film) prize for Afro-Irish director Steve McQueen; and Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's sense of guilt over the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees in 1982, was one of the critical favorites in the main competition, though Penn...
...renowned book is 2002's The Innocents, which depicts exonerated death-row inmates. Both works could serve social--even political--ends, but Simon insists she should not be mistaken for a photojournalist, and her old-style technique indeed argues that she is not. She works with a large-format camera and will wait all day for the perfect shot rather than shoot multiple rolls and edit her film later. The process earns her trust and access. "I can't be sneaky," she says. The result of that openness is frank pictures, straightforwardly taken--and as a consequence, startlingly revealing...
...problem with even a great photo is that there's usually only one of them. A single camera rooted in a single spot is limited to a single image. But the same scene could also have been viewed from above or below or the side or behind. When German-born photographer Barbara Probst handles the cameras...