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Camera Caper: A Canon camera, flash and telephoto lens, valued at $525 were reported stolen from the Science Center computer terminal room between 6 and 7 p.m. last Friday where the equipment had been left unattended...
Considering that most of the movie takes place in a stygian cave, The Keep looks gorgeous. Slow motion and pixilation enhance the spooky mood; a telephoto lens turns the castle into a pointillist magic mountain. It is cinematic balm when a fantasy movie pays informed tribute to the decorative arts. It is also, most likely, box-office poison...
...taking experiences of black youths and playing them in whiteface. The Flashdancers' moves can be seen any week on Soul Train, or on any inner-city street corner. But unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz. This "Pittsburgh" has steel mills that shimmer in telephoto twilight. The sidewalks are clean as the Lido beach-must be where all the ironworkers got those golden tans. In a neighborhood bar, Alex (Jennifer Beals) and her chums put on a sexy, high-tech floor show that could exist only in Wayne Newton's dreams. One after another, lithe stunners...
...farm boy who wants to be part of that legend and, if he can, extend it into Western myth. For all its genre trappings, Barbarosa is essentially a comedy about friendship; both the humor and the amity are infectious. Australian Director Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) uses his telephoto lens to caress the rugged vistas and visages of West Texas like a melancholy lover. Time-lapse shadows lope across a mountain range, eloquently suggesting the irony of a professional in the twilight of his career. He is too old and lonely to keep playing the boy's game...
...story, you say? A few shots with the telephoto lens, a few hot and heavy phone calls, followed by the big rape scene with somebody getting killed, right? Except that Derek-far from conventional-is not one to keep a low profile, Instad, he comes out in the oepn, sending flowers and busting into Jamie's house and snapping innumerable pictures of her, which serves only to annoy her constant male companion. Brandon (Michael Sarrazin). Derek is everywhere, and it's all a little too much to believe...