Word: tensioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film in the Hitchcock canon is sometimes overshadowed by its more influential siblings Psycho and Vertigo. But the story of quadriplegic Jeff Jeffries (James Stewart) and his tedium-induced mission to uncover the possible murder of a neighboring tenant is a gripping exercise in guilty-pleasure voyeurism and paranoid tension. Part of the Harvard Film Archive’s “Frames of Mind” series. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
Even now there are occasional flares of tension between the director and the screenwriter. Mentioning a key scene towards the end of Sunshine, Gondry unintentionally dredges up an on-set clash over how precisely to stage its action. The two turn away from the reporters to banter about the differing ways they thought about pulling it off, and Kaufman still seems somewhat sore that Gondry’s approach...
...Seattle couple has opted to stick with the stash but set aside the secrecy. Cindy, 53, started stockpiling cash in the late 1990s, when the family business slumped. "There was a lot of tension, and I had seen some ugly divorces," she explains. so she began to stow $100 bills in an old pair of alligator shoes hidden under a pile of hats in a closet. Two years ago, when the family finances had stabilized, she told her husband about her stash. By then it was so large--$12,000--that she felt he should know about it in case...
Carrie wannabes and Samantha fans perch sofas on coffee tables, trying to claim prime viewing spots for the Quincy screening of the “Sex and the City” finale. Quiet chatter belies the tension that only a much-hyped finale can bring. 40-plus students only have one question in their mind: will Carrie end up with her dashing Russian artiste or the New Yorker from her past? (Well, maybe there’s one or two girls wondering about whether Charlotte gets her baby...
...don’t believe [the tension] would carry itself over,” he said. Middlesex County District Attorney’s spokesperson Emily J. LaGrassa said the prosecution will not comment on the motion to change venue...