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With Walking Tall, Johnson extends his convincing farewell to the days of five-minute mostly-mute bit parts, exemplified by his debut role as the Scorpion King in 2001’s The Mummy Returns. The journey began with the 2002 Mummy spin-off The Scorpion King and continued with last year’s The Rundown, for which he received a fair amount of critical praise. Johnson, however, was not content to expand just his acting chops in only his third lead role in a feature film, and he relished the opportunity to creatively contribute to Walking Tall from...
...from one time and place to another, in mid-page with no visual cues, keeping you guessing about where and when a scene takes place. It's the kind of pleasant discombobulation you get from a midway hall of mirrors. You feel your way through. Swain also frequently inserts mute sequences that feel like poetic interludes. The narrative breathes. Her "camera" swirls around its subjects while they do nothing more than walk and light a cigarette. Each frame of a Carol Swain comic seems perfectly composed. The action comes almost completely out of the visual language of the panels. Adding...
...prints, drawings and photographs, curated her first survey show back in 1990, it was a more straightforward affair. Then, pictures simply stared back at audiences - looming larger, perhaps, because of the bold new type-C prints being adopted by rising stars like Bill Henson and Tracey Moffatt, but mute and mysterious all the same. Fourteen years on, Henson and Moffatt have been joined by a more raucous mob of artists, whose pictures answer back - or, to cite one of Moffatt's videos, give Lip. "The momentum's been building," Robinson says of the rise of Australian photo media...
...give your webcam lots of eye contact. Before starting, it's also good to check the mirror to make sure you like how you look. And what if you need a bit of privacy during the chat? Hit the pause button to freeze your video image, and then mute the microphone. If you're quick, that will buy you enough time to fix your lipstick...
...night, stage actress Elisabeth Volger (Liv Ullmann) suddenly stops in the middle of her performance and ceases entirely to speak thereafter. She is sent away to a country cottage, where she is tended to by a garrulous nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson). Alma quickly develops a monologue with her mute patient and slowly the two women seem to fuse into a single, indistinguishable entity. But a plot summary hardly does justice to Persona, director Ingmar Bergman’s masterwork and one of the most important films of 1960s cinema. Bergman explores the nature of communication, while tangling with threads...