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...they had 20 hours of footage. Their plan had been to follow that with the "documentary" scenes and, says Sanchez, "treat the footage almost as if it were real. But it turned out to be just so real." Suddenly they had a faux cinema verite thriller. "We knew it was different, and a risk. But as rough and as raw as it was, we knew we should leave it alone." They had their movie. They trimmed the woods footage--"It was like we wrote the script during the editing," Myrick says--and used the other material for a devious docu...
Congratulations on that beautiful Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman cover [CINEMA, July 5]. Be not dismayed by the flood of letters you get that will berate you as a purveyor of pornography. People who abhor the sight of beautiful human bodies are possessed by either a dirty mind or envy. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis...
...without being cheesy or obvious. But it doesn't quite live up to the buzz around it. When I got out of the 1:45 showing on Thursday afternoon, already all the shows from 7:05 on had sold out. Part of the reason must be that Kendall Square Cinema is the only place in the Boston area that's showing The Blair Witch Project. But I think it's also because of the intriguing premise, which sounds better than it is. The movie promises to be real, and therefore terrifying. With every jerky shot, we remember that...
...tease!), the short scene is wonderful because it is so loaded. Combine Kidman's glances into the mirror, her height advantage over Cruise, Isaak's strange lyrics (the verse Kubrick chooses is an interesting one) and the couple's blatant awkwardness, and you have a classic piece of cinema in 90 seconds...
...cheesy or obvious. But I don't think it quite lives up to the buzz around it. When I got out of the 1:45 showing on Thursday afternoon, already all the shows from 7:05 on had sold out. Part of the reason must be that Kendall Square Cinema is the only place in the Boston area that's showing The Blair Witch Project. But I think it's also because of the intriguing premise, which sounds better than it is. It promises to be real, and therefore terrifying. With every jerky shot, we remember that...