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...networks, Glass is finally attempting a televised version of his program for Showtime. Won over, he says, by the cable channel's yearlong courtship, Glass is two-thirds finished with a pilot presentation due in June. The trickiest task, he says, is translating the radio stories into a visual medium without creating "that smell of documentary." Oh, yes, and preparing for life in front of a camera, which for Glass meant losing 30 lbs. That smells of spin-off--This American Diet...
Graphic novels, by nature, are a visual medium. As a result, a significant portion of the emphasis normally placed on a novel’s writing is shifted over to the artwork. In this case, this shift is a very fortunate move as, sadly, the writing in “Guilty” can sometimes verge on the mediocre and there are also a number of misspellings in the dialogue. However, Stevens’ drawings are often so realistic and subtly attention-grabbing as to render the dialogue almost entirely irrelevant...
Fittingly, Stevens cites the medium of film and particularly the directors of the French New Wave as a major influence on his work. While I’m reluctant to juxtapose “Guilty” with “The 400 Blows,” Stevens work definitely has an element of that same detachment and disaffection among its characters that infuses the oeuvres of Truffaut and his contemporaries. Further, Stevens’ visual style is reminiscent of cinematic montage, which wordlessly hints at a complexity of character and adds depth and texture to an otherwise straightforward story...
...than it did on any sort of visual comedy. Although his witty prose certainly evokes no shortage of silly imagery, the comedy invariably manifests itself more in the style and delivery of the description, than it does in the image itself. While, when deployed in a written or auditory medium, this style is used to hilarious effect, it simply wouldn’t work in the movies...
...says in an e-mail that she thinks “film is an essential medium for communicating important ethical and religious ideas precisely because it is personal and up-close. It enables us to see and hear the thinking, the wrestling, even the doubts, that go into a complex faith and a commitment to public service...