Word: shots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior Andy Janfaza didn't need much time to bring the Crimson back. Driving into the left corner of the Clarkson end 30 seconds later, Janfaza reared and flipped a shot that slid perpendicular to the Clarkson net before hitting goaltender John Fletcher's pads and bouncing...
Strangest of all, perhaps, as the fact that this film wasn't even shot well. Frank is known as a legendary still photographer, with such classic works as "The Americans" behind him, and his free handed, experimental film techniques have been much celebrated and imitated. In Candy Mountain, however, his camera work only manages to confirm all your worst fears about a documentary director making a feature film; i.e. what seems immediate and convincing in cinema verite appears only sloppy and amateurish when scripted. It's incredible that some of this footage got used at all: too much rapid panning...
...really about the Rolling Stones nearly so much as it is about a rock tour--yes, with its attendant sleaze, but also with its attendant boredom, superficiality, dreariness and plain stupidity. The sleaze isn't a dominant theme so much as a simple reality. Something happened--Keith shot up--so here it is on celluloid. The camera doesn't pay any special attention to Keith's drug use, at least no more attention than anyone on the tour seems to be paying. Frank's chief aim in this film seems to have been true cinema verite, a capturing of life...
Char Joslin: The freshman sensation has become a sophomore sensation. She leads the team in goals scored, and is a threat to connect from anywhere. She can deke, fire a wrist shot in traffic or load up her famous cannon. Princeton keyed on her constantly last week but it didn't work--she got two third-period goals...
Brita Lind: This diminutive speedster wreaks havoc on the Ivy League. She can circle behind a defense and be off like a shot. Or if the defense keys on her speed, she can use her skills to come up with the puck on the boards...