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...Films (from now on, OBF's), we need a brief course in moviemaking and movie-watching. Nearly all films strive to make their technique invisible. Audiences may be enthralled or bored by the picture, but they usually don't notice - at least, they're not supposed to - how the placement of the camera, the delivery of lines and the editing rhythm create a plausible fictional world. Even mediocre movies speak the language of film grammatically, if not beautifully...
While most of Harvard’s top competitors were at Penn, the athletes whose level of improvement will ultimately determine the Crimson’s placement at Heps were...
Though the set never changes, effective use of technical elements and scene placement allows the characters to journey from law office to courtroom to the arid air of “Gitmo.” The downside of such a unit set is that in the fast pace of the show, particularly in the first act, one can occasionally become confused about the action’s location...
Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams), the beloved kid-show host, is ruined and then fired when he's caught taking bribes. His re-placement is the title character, a fuchsia-coated rhino under whose skin lurks the politically correct, morally perfect but terminally nerdy Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton). Naturally, the axed ex-host wants to off his sweet-souled successor. There's probably a tight, funny comedy lurking in that premise. But DeVito has turned the film into an expressionistic epic in murderously bad taste, all frenzy and feckless subplots, mostly involving ghastly gangland figures. A lot of good actors (among...
Valentine’s Day plans: Judging from the placement of the cologne on the top shelf, I’d have to say chilling in Mather...