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...Miranda Dear, SBS Independent's commissioning editor for drama, he landed on her desk accompanied by a handwritten note. It was March 2003, and it had taken Melbourne animator Adam Elliot three years to get the right ingredients and balance of flavors for his 22-min. short film Harvie Krumpet. "Well, here he is," the note declared, "almost fully baked...
...Krumpet shoot, he used an empty container from his dad's storage business, and employed the considerable knitting skills of his mother. Already he's launched Harvie the brand, with his own DVD and website. It's "a great step to whatever the next thing is," says Miranda Dear, "which, of course, we all hope is a feature film." On this subject, Elliot grows as quiet as one of his Claymation creatures, before pointing out that it was 20 years before Aardman Studios (of Wallace and Gromit fame) embarked on Chicken Run. Oscar or not, one suspects Harvie the movie...
...first eight mins., Siodmak and Schoenfeld efficiently construct a gallows due for our rancorous architect hero, Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis). The pickup, the revue they attend, the four people who noticed them - the bartender, the cab driver, the Carmen Miranda-style star of the show and her hepped-up drummer - are sharply sketched, with lots of oblique camera angles and warning shadows. The men waiting for Scott when he arrives home don?t bother to introduce themselves; are they thugs, or unknown suitors for Mrs. H.? They are detectives of the brutish sort Woolrich often painted: the menacing fatso (Thomas...
...Miranda Featherstone ’06, as Irene’s daughter Mary, emoted clumsily and excessively, and her presumable efforts to seem adolescent and stressed resulted in an acting style that came off as diffident. In a minor role, Henry I. Lichtblau ’07 did a good job as Mary’s cardboard-masculine boyfriend Peter; his comic timing wasn’t bad, given the material, and his gestures jived well with his lines. The set, designed by Laura P. Perry ’04, was well-conceived and professionally executed. The play?...
After Mikhail Gorbachev laid the final blows to Soviet Communism, who’s going to stop him from laying a few harmless smooches on the cheek of a pretty woman? Not Miranda L. Kobritz, a Divinity School student who found herself the object of the former Soviet president’s affections last month while riding an elevator with him at a hotel in New York City...