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...dusk one evening, after shooting has finished for the day, the crew and producers gather for drinks against the red-brick colossus of an abandoned beer factory. A white-haired musician in a Hawaiian shirt plays classic rock. "There is going to be a lot of competition here in the future," Nemeth says. "New money typically wants glory. And there's plenty of new money here. With all due respect to this great city and this great culture, the reason to make movies here - it's the money." Just then, one of the Russian grips goes over the edge...
...musician himself, who became a concert violinist by the age of 9 and sang in the men's chorus at Radio City Music Hall, Kristal still tried to play when his health permitted. "When I'm home, I try to play the guitar and my fingers are not good from the cancer, the chemotherapy," he said. "But I'm trying...
...Western musician definitely not invited is Sir Bob Geldof. Partly this is a matter of musical preference. "We never really knew who this guy was anyway," says Sammy, a journalist for the Sub Saharan weekly newspaper as he sips Arabica in one of Addis' smart streetside caf?s. "We never knew any of his tunes. And then suddenly he was here to save...
...likes to narrate stories: "There are stories the man recites quietly into the room which slip from level to level like a hawk." This is also Ondaatje's own literary secret. Over the years, his material has been almost absurdly diverse - he's written about Billy the Kid, jazz musician Buddy Bolden, his own family's history, contemporary Sri Lanka - but his idea of how to structure a book has been reasonably consistent: start a story that whets the reader's appetite with exquisite metaphors and sharp observations of psychology and society, then abruptly slip into another story, which...
...cinematography helps to ground the film in the compellingly nondescript image of New Jersey suburbia, and gives us the documentary-like realism that made “Spellbound” so powerful. This realism is constantly in tension with the whimsical soundtrack by American musician Eef Barzelay that is classical, folksy, and disturbing at the same time...