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Fingers of river fog carry a piercing midnight chill through the narrow, cobbled streets of Blois this November evening. World famous for its 13th century castle, 17th century cathedral, and medieval old town, Blois has long been fixture on the itinerary of the millions of tourists visiting France's Loire Valley every year. But as he peers up at the prematurely-hung Christmas decorations glittering above the immaculate, well-tended streets, Youness Ouzaanik is aware of just how different this postcard scene looks from the desolate landscapes of Blois's vast housing projects - where he lives, along with nearly...
...vegetation even as its metallic diagonals continue to resist being absorbed visually by nature. "We like to talk about paradox," says Herzog, "this thin layer masking things. In some lights this building almost disappears. In a different light it's very sculptural. Then in San Francisco you have the fog, which penetrates the perforations. We like that...
...makers of “Venom” also resort to the oldest scare tricks in the book, making most of the movie predictable. The ever-present blanket of fog, the constant rustling of wind in the trees, and the malfunctioning, blinking halogen lights are in no way innovative elements in horror films...
Into this world that consists mostly of war--and this war consists largely of the fog of war--Doctorow introduces a multitude of characters who live by their wits, reinvent themselves ceaselessly and sometimes die abruptly. Arly and Will are two reprobate Confederate soldiers who adopt different colors, blue or gray, as the rules of survival require. Pearl is a half-caste slave girl shrewdly contemplating the horizons of her new freedom while serving for a while in the disguise of a Union drummer boy. Her former mistress Mattie Jameson is now a grief-crazed Confederate widow swept along with...
Instead, Over There focuses, to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, on the narrow "soda straw" of the grunts' experience--a fog of war both physical and moral, with the only sure thing the desire to stay alive. The battle scenes may be the most visceral (literally) and gripping that series TV has ever done. As scary as the battle is the uncertainty. In one episode, the unit works at a checkpoint, unsure if they have killed good guys or bad guys even after they search the bullet-shattered cars. The show's power, of course, comes from knowing that these...