Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacation when Herzog conceived of it five years ago. He would return to the Peruvian Amazon, not too far from where he had filmed Aguirre, to shoot a sunnier version of that pathetic tale. At the end of the last century, an entrepreneur named Fitzcarrald dreamed of bringing his passion, grand opera, to the savage Indians upriver; to fulfill his dream, and with the Indians' help, he lugged a small riverboat across a narrow strip of land that separated two tributaries of the Amazon. It was a feat of autocracy and artistry, of engineering and enlightened madness-a readymade...
...sympathy they deserve obscured the perception that lies behind their suit, that a criminal penalty somehow cannot punish "enough." It's all very well for murderers to have to foot the bill for funerals they caused, but that's not one of the hardier deterrents to a crime of passion...
...first show, "American Passion," explores "the way the media victimizes the loneliness of urban kids," Ostrow said Written by two company members, it will use its $91,000 budget entirely an actors' salaries, all but eliminating production costs...
...press conference, where the cost of 13 entertained about 30 visitors with members from "American Passion," Harnes and Bruntelo praised Ostrow's efforts to "concentrate on the work and not any of the persiflage...
...then realized Güney's film plan. Perhaps because of this long-distance arrangement, Yol possesses a clarity of imagery and an editorial crispness not evident in Güney's other films. It is dour but never dull; it proceeds with an assurance born of passion and technical expertise. The picture may thus serve as the announcement of an adroit new director in Gören, a canny marshaler of film machinery and actors' resources. But first and final credit must go to Güney. Time spent in the microcosm of a Turkish jail...