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Much of the film is shot to allow great depth of field, keeping both the foreground and the background of the picture in focus. This technique--pioneered by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane--is known as "deep focus." The use of deep focus lends a strong sense of realism to the film, portraying simultaneously the characters and their environment. Kusturica also imports some techniques from the genre of film noir, especially the notion of the woman-as-temptress (in this case the mistress), and the practice of photographing her image in mirrors...
Carlos Fuentes' relationship with the United States is an ambiguous one, a love-hate relationship. "Sometimes we welcome each other, sometimes we reject one another," he says of the U.S. When he was growing up in Washington, Fuentes experienced not only Dick Tracy, Citizen Kane and the New Deal but also the anti-Mexican feelings which developed during the late 1930s when Mexico nationalized its oil industry. Fuentes says he has since faced frequent trouble entering the United States...
Murdoch aims to accomplish what no one has done in 40 years: forge a fourth American television network. The press lord has marched toward his goal with a zealous efficiency worthy of Citizen Kane. Murdoch began last March when he bought half of the 20th Century-Fox movie and TV studio. Then he agreed to pay an impressive $1.5 billion in May for six of Metromedia's big- city independent television stations, a chain that reaches one of every five U.S. homes. Finally, in September, Murdoch bought the other half of Fox. Now that he has acquired the pieces, Murdoch...
...Hollywood that capered through the Depression, Welles introduced the cinema of melancholy. With Citizen Kane--a tale of power and love, and the loss of both--American film found the dark, seductive side of its own success story. For the next decade, domestic dramas, spy pictures and detective thrillers would be shrouded in expressionist shadows and shot with oblique camera angles. Kane's multiple-narrator format announced that no one was to be trusted with the whole truth; the camera could lie too, and we would have to decide whether to believe it. Welles dragged the movies into modernism, with...
...directed a dozen features in 45 years, made up-in-smoke deals for dozens more, started an additional four films that remain out there, tantalizingly unfinished. None of his post-Kane Hollywood pictures was made to his specifications; studio bosses cut Ambersons by 43 minutes. To finance his own pictures he became a successful strolling player: something of a matinee idol in Jane Eyre (1944), the wry incarnation of postwar evil in The Third Man (1949) and any number of lowing hierarchs and potentates in his nearly 30- year exile from another chance to astonish Hollywood. Now that...