Word: filming
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...Dylan's seminal Royal Albert Hall concert in a pub near the famed original venue, and later in the year he released a solo album dubbed Moss Elixir. In 1998, longtime fan Johnathan Demme, who directed "The Silence of the Lambs" and the Talking Heads' famed concert film "Stop Making Sense," filmed him playing in a storefront window in New York to create "Storefront Hitchcock." This year saw the release of Jewels for Sophia and a reunion with former Soft Boys guitarist Kimberly Rew for the tour...
Whether you loved it or hated it, 1995's most infamous film--Kids, a day in the life of sex-crazed, drugged-up New York skaters--signaled the debut of an interesting, if not innovative, new talent. In his shockingly realistic screenplay, Harmony Korine, a Californian Jew who left home at the age of 16, captured the verbal rhythms and psychological nihilism of adolescents living at the fringe. In his 1997 directorial debut, Gummo, Korine attempted to "push humor to extreme limits" by provoking random passers-by into fistfights and then filming the results with hand-held cameras. The filmmaker...
...Julien befriends a blind ice-skater, Julien goes to church, etc.--but no particular story is told. Instead, the viewer is presented with a motley assemblage of images and fragments from Julien's daily life--some of them humorous, some of them tragic, all of them enigmatic. In the film, Korine wanted "to push the idea of reality and truth in film to the limit," even if this means redefining our notion of cinematic storytelling. From black albinos to Thalidomide victims to singers in a gospel church, these unusual and memorable images take the place of well-developed themes...
...film, however, is not always successful in engaging its audience. When a character exclaims "I can't take it any more!" towards the middle of the film, several critics at the press screening hollered "Neither can we!" and promptly left the theater. Others, however, sat rapt with attention throughout the closing credits. The wildly mixed response to the film is likely because of its unconventionality. As the first American "Dogme 95" film, a Norwegian cinematic movement that calls for the "stripping down of film," donkey-boy was shot using hand-held cameras and without written dialogue or special lighting...
...Michael Mann's The Insider is an epic-sized film based on the "60 Minutes" tobacco scandal of a few years ago; Mann succeeds in distilling a very convoluted and controversial story into a relatively taut two hours. However, his magnum opus is not without flaws and plays like an uncompleted character study, a film that stops just short of greatness...