Word: seamless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brad Rouse's production of The Baltimore Waltz manages to evoke Vogel's various levels of meaning compellingly, with engaging performances by the actors and seamless work by the technical crew. The Baltimore Waltz is an exciting and innovative take on the AIDS play, with relevance that reaches beyond AIDS itself to the effects that both growing-up and loss have on familial relationships...
...networks have responded by launching a war against channel grazing. All four are moving to shorten opening-credit sequences, spice up the end credits with program material (such as outtakes from the show just seen) and add more "seamless transitions" -- eliminating the commercials between shows -- in an effort to keep viewers hooked. Meanwhile, time slots are more critical than ever to a show's success or failure...
...computer magic of morphing, but the software used in True Lies is less noticeable than the hardware. Says Cameron: "There's nothing that gets the back of your mind screaming, 'That's impossible!' It's revolutionary technology in the service of a photorealistic end product." That translates into seamless digital imagery and nifty stunts. When a Harrier jet isn't flying around Miami, a villain is negotiating a breathless motorcycle leap from a hotel rooftop into an elevated swimming pool across the street. Things go boom in the night. Jamie Lee performs a striptease. Arnold hurts people. There's something...
...film moves in a seamless fashion from pow-wow discussions involving the supporting cast to odd shots of hands and candles and lights fading in and out. The rest of the cast (T. Wendy McMillan as the professor Kia, Migdalia Melendez as Kia's lover, Evy, and the cavorting Daria, played by Anastasia Sharp) gossip about the progress of Max and Ely's romance. And I forgot to mention, the entire film is made in black and white...
...Harvard audiences, his seamless juxtapositions of the random places on campus where he was allowed to shoot may feel disorienting, but in a fun way. The cinematography of Sven Nykvist (of Ingmar Bergman fame) is competent, but it has none of the passion of his most recent work, the lyrical "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and the truly horrible (but well-filmed) "Sleepless in Seattle...