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...says he asked to go on the assignment to Central America. He wanted not only to produce "shot up, bang-bang journalism" but also to capture "the feeling of the people trying to live there." A recent honor which Reed received seems to suggest that his desire to depict the human-side of tragedy is not just a goal but a talent. Earlier this year he won the prestigious Nikon World Understanding award for his Central American shots...
...ranked as the equal of the Parthenon. Very little is known of the people who built and used it, or of the reasons it was permanently abandoned in 1006 after an earthquake and the eruption of the nearby Merapi volcano. Covered with some two miles of bas-reliefs that depict the life of Buddha and the sacred stories of Buddhism, Borobudur is a source of immense national pride to Indonesia, even though Islam is now the religion of more than 95% of its people...
...communist coup. Weir also seems to be grappling with the essential human misery of the vast majority of Asia, indeed of mankind--not a new theme, to be sure, but one rarely addressed honestly by filmmakers. Even when directors treat elemental human problems--hunger, disease, poverty--they usually depict them as an incidental sideshow to the more natural cinematic book of political machinations. Misery becomes a political cliche, a problem to be solved with a wave of the hand as soon as the "right" politicians get into power...
...movies at all--unless of course you happen to have one of those rare ones who appear in the midst of powerful human events. Joan of Arc was such a figure, as was Gandhi, the leader of one of history's greatest popular movements. The Gandhi Attenborough chose to depict is the Gandhi of popular memory: the holy man who shrewdly arrayed his moral power against a corrupt colonial regime. Attenborough ignores the Gandhi who while a young man in England dabbled in the arts and pastimes of Western civilization and then underwent the spiritual transformation that turned him into...
Aside from Tom's wanderings through the town early in the movie. That Championship Season could have been filmed on the stage. The few scenes in Scranton depict empty street settings whose houses look like backdrops. The limited settings suit writer director Miller well, as does the almost detached underrating cinematic raphy of John Bailey. On several occasions, the camera's frame casually includes remainders of the characters' longing for times past. As James Daily talks on the phone in his office, he glances out his window to watch young students playing basketball; when Sirkowski exercises in his office...