Word: off-camera
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...summed up in two words: Robert Altman. People want him to return to the form of what they fondly recall as his glory days--Nashville, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. But those days are long gone, and we are pretty much left with Altman's signature mannerisms (improvisatory off-camera and overlapping dialogue), attitudes (a glum and witless misanthropy about his characters) and, above all, the lack of dynamics in his direction...
...favorite scene in Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone happens off-camera. It involves a supporting cast of concerned adults who decry the fact that a pretty good movie was made from a terrific book. Somehow the success of the Harry Potter movie is used as evidence that a bunch of muggles are ruining their children's ability to imagine for themselves what happens inside a book or tainting their desire to ever pick one up. Soon enough, the thinking goes, our kids will be terminal couch potatoes, unable to conjure up anything more adventurous than an episode...
...daughter, the separated couple trying to reconcile and the gay partners of 11 years. (Another thing you generally don't see on dramas and sitcoms - see "The Ellen Show," above - where gay people are required to be young, single and flip about their love lives, which take place off-camera...
...strange moment on "Meet the Press": Off-camera in the studio, a lightbulb apparently exploded -a loud, sharp noise. Jesse Jackson thought it was a gunshot. For an instant he looked wildly to his right, eyes questioning...
...heart of this puzzling thriller are Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan, whose off-camera romantic shenanigans made the picture notorious months before it hit theaters. Those expecting to the two leads to scorch the screen, however, will be shocked and perhaps even bitterly disappointed to see just how little sexual tension develops between the two stars. Curiously, Proof of Life is not structured as a romance-the greatest shortcoming of the screenplay is its failure to develop Thorne's central conflict, in which a man who's always in control finds that what he has to do has become almost...