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...hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to concentrate so intently that they could see the minute hand move. PA uses a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes has a time code at the bottom right of the frame. Sometimes the clock spins like mad to show the passing of hours between phenomena - and in one super-creepy scene, there is the image of Katie standing motionless, as if still asleep, for two hours straight. It's even more chilling a few nights later, when Katie, clearly the more haunted of the two, again stands...
...with the unself-conscious exuberance of a bright 16-year-old. The star pupil at an élite London girls' school, Jenny has her eyes on Oxford, but can't help giving a longing glance at the world of luxe, of fine art and good restaurants, that she is mad to enter. Admission to the dolce vita is the apple held out by her new friend David (Peter Sarsgaard), a suave businessman twice her age. He, in turn, is seduced by Jenny's intellectual brio and, for all her poise, innocence. With the same connoisseur's appreciation he might focus...
...only former Occidental employee toiling away in his retirement. There are three other former Oxy Pete workers among the staff. All would be better off today - and probably playing the course as opposed to working it - had Occidental stuck to its pension system. Still, Shively says he is not mad at his former employer. And so far, he hasn't found working in retirement to be too bad. Let's hope we all think the same...
...landing couldn't have taken place. What I discovered in the files is how it all began - in a characteristically eccentric British way. The most adventurous of the MI5 agents in the 1930s was an air ace from the First World War named Christopher Draper. He's called the "Mad Major," because he was absolutely obsessed with flying under London's bridges. He's invited over to Germany. Hitler is very interested and spends over half an hour talking to him at an air show. When he gets back [to London], he's asked to become a spy for German...
...existential terror of life anywhere. It is a world of secrecy and universal suspicion. Everyone suspects everyone of betrayal, both political and sexual - the line between the two is never clear. No one is incorruptible. As the narrator of The Appointment puts it: "The trick is not to go mad...