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...acting abilities: the motorcycle she was riding was nailed to a moving trailer, and when asked to “arbitrarily turn her head,” she panted longingly as she whipped her hair around. The visual effects crew then shot Edward on a green screen and projected his image onto a cloud of computer particles in the shape of a blurred candle flame so that he would seem more transparent. This effect also facilitated the illusion of Edward’s image blowing away into the wind, which was created with a nature-simulator that dispersed these...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'New Moon' Panel Unveils CGI Tricks | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...Library of Congress. Mouris’s film features two overlapping audio tracks: the filmmaker lists words beginning with the letter “F” while also telling his own life story. At the same time, an ever-shifting collage of magazine clippings appears on the screen. These stock images range from depictions of the Buddha to packs of cigarettes and appear in coordination with Mouris’s narrative. For example, when Mouris explains his middle and high school crushes, the screen fills up completely with drawings of eyes and lips...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A 'Frame by Frame' History | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...stars. It's not a sequel. It isn't the screen version of a best-selling novel, a comic-book franchise or the Bible. It's got a lot of battle scenes, so women certainly wouldn't want to go see it. It's also the most tree-hugging movie ever, with a defiantly leftish agenda - at the climax, we're meant to cheer when American soldiers get killed. And what does the title mean, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Ascendant | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...strategy of the folks at Screen Gems - the company that took on Dear John after New Line surrendered the property when the company got folded into its parent, Warner Bros. - was to open the movie on Super Bowl weekend, when American males, a big part of Avatar's constituency, were preoccupied with large men running, throwing and writhing in pain. Director Lasse Hallström, who has helmed such dewy fare as Chocolat, Something to Talk About and The Shipping News, gave the remaining femme audience the standard Harlequin cocktail of a handsome soldier (G.I. Joe's Channing Tatum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: A Dear John for Avatar | 2/7/2010 | See Source »

...desperation shot,” Lin said. “We ran a quick screen and roll at the top of the key. I was hoping both defenders would come with me, but one stayed with Kyle and that disrupted it because no one was open...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rally Falls Short as Harvard Drops Heartbreaker | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

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