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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last showing of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" in 35 mm the Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle...
Like so many photographers of his day, and not just of his day, Brassai occasionally posed some of the people in pictures that look at first glance like candids. By the 1930s, photographers like Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson had begun to use the new 35-mm handheld Leicas, equipment that could capture fast movement. Brassai persisted in working with a Voigtlander Bergheil. A camera that used small glass plates instead of film--Brassai would eventually adapt it for conventional film--it required a tripod and long exposures. That in turn meant that his subjects usually knew they were...
...grossed over $1.6 million; the surplus of film schools; cheaper and more accessible technologies (credible-looking features can now be shot on digital video at a cost of about $20 for an hour of tape, as opposed to, say, $15,000 for an hour of 35-mm film stock and processing); easy credit. Estimates of the total number of independent films that will be made this year range upwards of 1,100. "And that's only completed films," says Jeff Lipsky, an executive at Samuel Goldwyn Films. "Lord knows how many more at least start production." By Lipsky's count...
...Mainz, Germany, resident reports that between 3 p.m., and 3:15 p.m., an unknown person removed her bag from beside her chair while she was at Au Bon Pain on 1350 Mass. Ave. The bag contained a wallet, $400 cash, a passport, a plane ticket to Germany, a 35 mm camera and a credit card...
...somehow Touch of Evil offers even more after those historic first three min- utes. Welles capitalizes on the B-movie budgetand fuses his technical limitations with thestory, creating a cohesive alienation. Combiningthe distortion of an 18.5 mm lens, the dizzyingdiscomfort of handheld cameras, the high contrastimages of low lighting, and the frighteninglyenormous figures produced by low angle shots, thefilm replaces surface normality with theunsettling...