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...much in human scale. The two men are clearly friends and the film director - making his first non-fiction film - shoots in a style much less formal than he usually does in his features. He is also very much present in the movie, himself shooting with a small video camera while chatting with Gehry and using some of this material in the film. Despite his own successful career - full disclosure here, I?ve known Pollack casually for many years and employed him as the impeccable narrator of a number of my own documentary films - and he presents himself...
...spoke to TIME, standing on the sidewalk near the courthouse, the interview was interrupted by screaming. Five feet away, a young American journalist from Knight Ridder had attracted the attention of security forces by taking photographs. Five or six of them jumped on her and began grabbing for her camera, hitting her and reaching down her shirt as she stood pinned against a parked...
...classroom with four teenage boys, the focus is on life skills. Johnathan learns to type a grocery list, which he and an instructor will later take shopping. Another boy, learning to use a camera, asks visitors whether he may take their picture. He uses the same words and intonation each time he asks...
...never raises his voice, even when he?s ordering the death of a traitor to the cause. He began his public life as a wrestler and it has been observed that in his presence he is the logical successor to Jean Gabin, another great screen actor whom the camera never catches acting. He just triumphantly is, a large, taciturn, slightly ponderous man whose compassion is totally implicit, yet somehow palpable - even when he?s overseeing the garroting of an informer. Forced by the Gestapo to play a deadly little game - a group of prisoners is given a running head start...
...that deadly run is about as intense as the "action" in Army of Shadows gets. Melville is a deeply patient director. He lets his players stroll, chatting, to their destinies, his camera panning or tracking their very normal, very unsuspicious, movements, while we in the audience get the creeps. We know, quite early in this film, that when death or capture appears it will be sudden. A car door opens or its window rolls down and there it is - "the distinguished thing." The effect, finally, is a forced, but mutedly melodramatic perspective on the religious saw about how, in life...