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Near the end of the market's five-day run, the lobby of the Angelika Film Center was still aswarm with writer-producer-directors passing out handbills, waving placards, showing trailers on handheld DVD players, almost literally collaring people to see their films. It was marketing as hand-to-hand combat, an uneasily direct communion between filmmaker and potential audience member. The pitches: a blaxploitation parody starring a white guy! An ex-cop grandma wages war on her grandson's kidnappers! A lost relic with aphrodisiacal powers--Jesus' foreskin--turns up in Manhattan! "Pringles financed my movie," a commercial actor...
...somehow Touch of Evil offers even more after those historic first three min- utes. Welles capitalizes on the B-movie budgetand fuses his technical limitations with thestory, creating a cohesive alienation. Combiningthe distortion of an 18.5 mm lens, the dizzyingdiscomfort of handheld cameras, the high contrastimages of low lighting, and the frighteninglyenormous figures produced by low angle shots, thefilm replaces surface normality with theunsettling...
Technology was supposed to make our lives simpler. Instead we're stuck with 40-lb. monitors, beeping cell phones and a rat's nest of cables. Now JVC and Sharp are making truly simple handheld devices for sending and receiving e-mail. Users just type a note, dial a toll-free number on any phone, then hold the device up to the mouthpiece while short, modemlike screeches indicate that messages are being transmitted. Available this fall, JVC's $100 HC-E100 and Sharp's $150 TelMail require a $10 monthly...
Many gadgets make it easy to send e-mail on the road, but scanning and faxing a document are trickier. Hewlett-Packard has a new handheld device that can scan and store up to 50 pages of text. Unlike most scanners, the CapShare 910 ($700, available in December) uses a wireless infrared port to transmit the scanned pages to some notebook computers, which can then be used to fax or e-mail the text. While the lightweight CapShare is easy to use, its reliance on infrared connections could limit its appeal...
...makes no difference. Whether you live or die here is entirely a matter of chance, not survival tactics. Spielberg's handheld cameras thrust us into this maelstrom, and his superb editing creates from these bits and pieces a mosaic of terror. We see as the soldiers see, from belly level, in flashes and fragments, none more vivid than the shot, rendered almost casually, of a soldier staggering along, carrying his severed arm--the struggle against mortality encapsulated in what amounts to a sidelong glance...