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...think that even before I did ‘Spellbound,’ I wanted to see myself as a visual storyteller,” he says. “So I ended up doing ‘Spellbound?? first because I wanted to be in control of a project straight out of film school...I didn’t see myself as a documentary filmmaker, just a filmmaker...
...cinematography helps to ground the film in the compellingly nondescript image of New Jersey suburbia, and gives us the documentary-like realism that made “Spellbound?? so powerful. This realism is constantly in tension with the whimsical soundtrack by American musician Eef Barzelay that is classical, folksy, and disturbing at the same time...
...days later, AOL Instant Messenger News published an article about a girl from Montana who won her regional spelling bee after 41 rounds of head-to-head spelling competition. Wow! Competitive spelling has been in the public eye for some time now. From movies like “Spellbound?? to the Broadway play “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” to the ESPN airing of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, it seems to be that we like to watch spelling, though sometimes critically. We observe, literally spellbound, as contestants string together letters...
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel Twentieth Century Fox 2 stars Fans of the documentary “Spellbound?? or those eagerly anticipating the Scripps National Spelling Bee each year are not going to get their fix of competitive dictionary memorization from the new Richard Gere film, “Bee Season.” Frustratingly, this adaptation of Myla Goldberg’s novel focuses more on spiritual exploration and family tribulation than on silent “e”s and phonemes. Gere is Saul Naumann, a cocky, self-absorbed father who demands perfection...
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