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...musicians’ passion for absolute effort in their performance. The band and singer interacted so well on stage, with virtually no eye contact or communication with the audience, it was as if the 3500 ticket holders had been privileged to walk into a jam session of master musicians...
...former master of Adams House and an active supporter of dramatics at Harvard, Kiely offers his own opinion on the dramatic arts concentration: “Harvard has had for years the resources: the A.R.T.; junior and senior professors in different departments who have an interest in dramatic history; people in the English department who teach playwriting and screen writing; some very nice small theaters in the Houses; and the Agassiz and the Ex. What exists now is not put together by any particular group. There are a lot of courses in theater but they’re all over...
...with tremendous affection. His tight close-ups put you right in the moment so that you can almost feel the heat emanating from the skin of their passion-filled bodies. His trademark zoom shots, while they still precisely cut through space, now move with the grace of an aged master. Like a Cartier-Bresson photograph, they reveal “the decisive moment” during which the emotions that threaten to sweep away the characters instantaneously come together...
It’s difficult to understand how this project actually made it through production, when the actors, screenwriters, director and cinematographer are so obviously phoning in their work. Sunset begins with two master thieves, Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and the luscious Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), completing the heist of a one-of-a-kind diamond and then jetting to a tropical island paradise to enjoy their retirement. Unbeknownst to them, FBI agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson), still simmering from his botched attempt to prevent their robbery, has tracked them down and means to nab them with a brilliant scheme.There...
...strove for something other than purely visual realism. Like Spielberg, he was working to convey the brutality of war but, as Connor explains, “unlike in Saving Private Ryan, it was never an exercise in verisimilitude but rather an exercise in filmmaking.” A master of the overstatement, Fuller’s abrupt humor, drama, and violence serve as a means—not an end—towards presenting a more personal and truthful account of World...