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...thought at that moment, nobody cares. Nobody cares. So I handed her her camera. She walked away. I walked as far back to the railing closest to the traffic as I could, I ran, and I catapulted myself over the bridge. I didn't get on the ledge to have people talk me down. I just jumped...
...choice, and a bit better than that, for an art-film festival. It moves at a glacial pace - actually, we can't use that metaphor any more, after what we learn about melting icecaps from the Gore movie, but this is a film that takes its time - with a camera that rarely moves and characters who for long stretches are wrapped mutely in isolated misery against stunning landscapes...
...begins with a middle-aged professor, Isa (played by the director), and his young girlfriend, Bahar (Ceylan's wife Ebru), at the archaic architecture site of Kas. As he photographs the ruins, she stands on a promontory, gazes at the view and cries. The camera holds on her for agonizing minutes, until a fly alights on her hair. Maxi-minimalism! The two are trudging toward a breakup. At dinner with friends, they quarrel publicly. "Don't worry," Bahar says of her hosts, "they enjoy seeing us miserable." (A remark that puts the relationship of critics to minimalist movie characters...
...Candy (which opens in Australia this week), the camera doesn't lie. When Dan is told he is to become a father, his face, caught in the light of a window, floods with tenderness. Ledger appears to act only when his character must-to hustle for the couple's next fix. Otherwise his performance is fakery-free. As the sun Dan orbits, Abbie Cornish carries the same dreaminess she first displayed in Somersault. If she never quite plumbs Candy's depths, that's because she remains in Dan's eyes an ideal. Also directing their gaze is Svengali figure Casper...
...sidekick on TV's seminal '50s hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in Hawthorne, New York. The popular seltzer-squirting clown was mute until the show's final episode in 1960, when a teary Anderson?whose band played in New York City clubs until the 1990s?turned to the camera and uttered the now famous, often replayed sign-off: "Goodbye, kids...