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...hallway outside the Sullivan Chamber of City Hall was unusually silent during last night’s City Council meeting. The TV screen that would usually broadcast the meeting was black and the bench on which community activists generally sit was empty...
Since the camera's visual range is narrow, Marie has to scan an image by slowly moving her head from left to right and up and down until she's covered the entire screen. As the camera criss-crosses the visual field, a rapid series of electrical stimulations is sent to her optic nerve. The number of electrical stimulations depends on the number of live pixels on the screen; the more there are, the easier and quicker it is to compile an image. Marie reconstructs the image from what appear to be a series of strobe flashes, an experience that...
...introduced Hollywood to Hallström, but it was The Cider House Rules in 1999, followed by Chocolat in 2000, that cemented his reputation as a master of literary adaptation. Now he's back with another star-studded film, The Shipping News , perhaps his most challenging book-to-big-screen project...
...film. As a teen, he took his camera everywhere, and his precocity later landed him work in TV, which "was my film school," he says. "I worked the cameras and I edited," mostly on music shorts for Swedish television. Gradually, Hallström shifted his focus from the small screen to the big. But few people saw his first feature, a boy-meets-girl tale, or his second, ABBA: The Movie, about the group's 1977 Australian tour. Real recognition didn't come until My Life as a Dog, which won top Swedish honors and two Oscar nominations...
...perfect. Hallström was set to direct after wrapping 1995's Something to Talk About, which starred Julia Roberts. But the densely layered storytelling in E. Annie Proulx's celebrated book about Quoyle, a widower who moves to his ancestral hometown in Canada, proved difficult to translate to screen. Unhappy with the script, Hallström quit. The project went through four writers, two other directors and two leading men (John Travolta and Billy Bob Thornton) before a more experienced Hallström agreed to try again...