Word: camerawork
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...help her pimp assassinate the now rich Niepolomski. So what if she has to throw herself in front of a bullet to protect him from her own treachery? So what if she dies looking like a streetwalker, her painted face in his hands? The score and the dashing camerawork tell us to accept it all in schmaltzy, romantic stride...
Little by little, with these scary hints and some entrancing camerawork, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris draws you in. All signs at this stage seem to point towards a Star Trek turned upside-down: a Spaceship Enterprise--like crew that blasts off to explore strange, unknown lands and instead of finding curvacious blondes drifts into a new dimension where scampering children and uninvited "guests" control reality. Obviously more sophisticated than the sci-fi schlock we've grown used to, Solaris promises to give us a provocative view of the race to space, and a commentary, perhaps, on the moral and political...
Welles did not direct The Third Man, but the film's expressionist camerawork and jagged interplay of light and shadows betrays his influence. Set in post-war Vienna, split into four zones by the occupying powers, this film, written by Graham Greene, is without a doubt one of the best spy thrillers ever made. Tense, well-paced, and exciting, it features Welles as Harry Lime, a treacherous amoral operator around whose machiavellian vision the whole film revolves. Few films other than Hitchcock's pack so much anxiety into a single shot: a cat licking a man's shoe makes...
...Camerawork. For all his adrenal meanderings, Tarden is not without wit. He often affects an officer's uniform of no known country, then parades through towns watching functionaries cringe and scrape before him. By seizing upon the paranoid fantasies of East European officials, he forces a bureaucracy to fall of its own weight and makes good his escape-as did his creator 18 years...
...these are pin lights in a field of black. Kosinski's terse, unstructured style has always created images of power and authenticity. Here he uses I-am-a-camerawork to fill the mind's eye, with scenes following one another like projected slides. Incidents are unobtrusively introduced until the reader seems to be a guest, then a participant in Tarden's intrigues. Some of those plans include obsessive sexual anguish that amounts to sadomasochism. Others concern the pornography of violence; a skiing accident, stained with blood and waste, and a murder by radar are as gripping...