Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shadow of Doubt Wed.-Thurs...
...shadow that falls in Here Lies has little to do with Ambler's private life or his two marriages--he might have been a lifelong bachelor for all the discussion of his domestic affairs. It concerns his screen credits. In the front of this truncated autobiography, 18 novels are listed, along with 16 screenplays. From The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear to Dirty Story and The Levanter, the books form a distinguished line. Most of the films are extremely forgettable, and so are the adaptations of his work. But Ambler remembers them: "The Mask of Dimitrios had been...
...need now, he told himself, is a necklace of bear claws." But this is more than a scenario, and L'Amour has not simply traded Remingtons for rockets: his - knowledge of the frozen North is well researched, his KGB men have enough dimension to throw a long shadow, and along the trek he even mentions straight shooters like Ivan Karamazov and Balzac's Pere Goriot. Those were mighty rare figures on the old prairie; the garrulous storyteller is not only moving on, he is trading...
...cool artsy line-and-shadow shot after another flashes on the screen. Wheatfields stretch into the distance, crooked fences reflect sunlit weeds, the world becomes one large poetic image as French director Agnes Varda transforms one girl's story into a supposedly universal metaphor; life is an aimless wander, meeting people and passing through places until you die. And, believe it or not, the film's beautiful cinematography and Saundrine Bonnaire's quiet naturalness as the girl actually make this work...
...dancing with bent knee, flexed feet and palms, the effect was of marionettes courting each other with jerky movements. Then, all of a sudden, I realized that my dancing partner wasn't a woman at all, he was just wearing what we think of as woman's makeup: eye shadow, lipstick and mascara...