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...uniqueness and unnaturalness of the world he films, Weber employs all kinds of unsubtle cinematic devices. Within the frame of his movie camera are more photographs, more cameras, flipping pages full of mementos. Interview subjects direct their comments not to the camera, but to third or fourth parties on screen, whom Weber has positioned as the interrogator, the intermediary. Everything is two-or-threefold detached...
...possible, but the format of the strict narrative fails to capture the imagination and soul of Rowling’s literary wit and vision. Characters that prove to play essential roles in the stories to follow are often carelessly inserted, solely for the purpose of displaying them on-screen, if only for a few minutes each. Admittedly, part of the problem is the book itself; Sorcerer’s Stone was created as the first of seven installments concerning Harry’s education at Hogwarts. Rowling’s novels grow only increasingly dark as her narrative progresses, pulling...
...It’s just the first non-Social Studies e-mail we happened to get,” Burch said. “We don’t really have a policy for it. If we were to get a lot we’d probably screen them...
They are first-years and their world is the Yard. If on a night you bisect the Yard, you can feel their emotional inquisitiveness, their gnawing celibacy, their sense of discovery. Upperclass students remember (here the music comes up and the screen goes wavy) that long-lost time when academic competition was in abeyance and you watched a dawn from the Weld Observatory after a delirious all-night discussion of “the pros and cons of long-distance relationships...
...Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) is the most distinctive, addictive new TV series this season. As an old-fashioned thriller, it's relentless, tense and deliciously paranoiac, with more twists than a Twizzler. But it's also boldly different. Most notably, there's its clever visual signature: picture-in-picture screens that show two, three and even four different scenes simultaneously. Director and executive producer Stephen Hopkins first used the device to handle the show's many phone calls, but it proved the perfect way to emphasize the concurrent story lines. "There is something going on at every moment," Hopkins says...