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...City, like last year’s pretty but boring Sky Captain, was shot entirely with actors against green-screens. Everything else was filled in later by computers; however, Sin City’s black-and-white sets have a gritty realism that the sepia-tinted Sky Captain lacked...
Forget the grainy, two-dimensional images you typically get at the doctor's office. The 3-D footage these companies provide of yawning, smiling, blinking fetuses, in sepia tones and often set to music, is rapidly becoming the hip new baby-shower gift. Couples or their friends can spend upwards of $250 on deluxe packages that may include 5-by-7 portraits, DVDs and a personalized Web page. Denver's First View Ultrasound even offers catering and limousine service to accommodate large parties, in addition to unlimited Kleenex because customers are so moved by the ultrasound experience...
Granted, they can't bring much life to their characters, since the movie's sepia-toned look almost literally drains the color from their faces, which are shot in light so diffuse they look as if they were painted on velvet. It's more important to Conran that they be figures in a landscape whose tones have the texture of a seeping, seductive gouache. In his vision of moviemaking as essentially a basement activity--a controlled environment as unpolluted as possible by the egos and quirks of performers--Conran is a lot like George Lucas from Star Wars on. Actors...
Like The Laughing Cavalier, Trumble's book leaves you with a heightened awareness of the smile's subliminal power. As you read this, buses around Sydney are advertising cider with a sepia photo of grave-faced frontiersmen: they saved their smiles for happy hour; while emails zip around cyberspace with the smiley emoticon of colon-dash-parenthesis. "The smile, meanwhile, is getting broader, wider, fiercer," writes Trumble. And, as his book attests, more subversive than ever...
...Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly; 2002) Sturm's ode to a Jewish team during the early barnstorming days of baseball looks like old sepia-toned bubblegum cards laid out to tell a story. Through it he explores the way the Old World adapted (with difficulty) to the New. A fascinating spin on baseball as a metaphor for America, Sturm gives us a story with the heart and drama of a great ball game. Full Review