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From his roots as a comedy writer to political pundit, radio host, best-selling author and, of course, Bill O'Reilly's longstanding bête noire, Al Franken has had many different roles. His latest: the subject of a low-budget indie documentary, God Spoke, rolling out in theaters this week. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner talked to the loquacious liberal just hours before Franken dashed off to a Democratic National Committee event...
...from lagging music-industry sales, a hefty contract is a coup?extra exposure that may help fill the seats on their next tour. And a lucrative beauty contract can allow an actress like Revlon's Julianne Moore, a fixture on the independent-film circuit, to choose satisfying roles in low-budget films by compensating for the financial...
Conversations is obviously a low-budget project. What appealed...
...that Orson Welles and Gregg Toland created for Citizen Kane: chiaroscuro lighting, characters in extreme closeup or long shot, and plenty of low-angle shots. Alton pushed these tenets further than most. He shot even the sitting figures from below, with the tops of rooms pressing down on them; he loved ceiling shots more than Japanese tourists in the Sistine Chapel. This perspective not only enhanced a doomsday mood, it kept the costs down on low-budget productions. According to Joe Cohn, his boss at MGM, Alton "saved a lot of time by lighting only from the floor...
...heard of office buildings and farmhouses being turned into hotels - but we had never heard of converting prisons. And yet the interior architecture of a penitentiary should be well suited to low-budget accommodation - just think how efficiently large numbers of inmates are housed[an error occurred while processing this directive] within and are briskly transferred from cell to dining hall. There were certainly no design problems at Hostel Celica, hostelcelica.com, a onetime military prison in Ljubljana effortlessly transformed into one of the most fashionable places to stay in the Slovenian capital...