Word: touchingly
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...providing the masses with everything from movies, music and television shows to theme parks and tacky gifts, Universal Studios has indicated a return to its film production roots with the re-release of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Perfectly timed to debut at the Silver Anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival--incidentally a festival founded by a film archivist--the restoration effort presumably targets our recent resurgence of interest in Americana by restoring a figure, much maligned in his time, to his much deserved position of authority...
...only once, Orson Welles wrote a 58-page "memo" to Universal Studios head Edward Muhl detailing the mauling the studio had done to his film. Buried for 40years, the "newly-discovered" memo provided the basis for the restoration effort, now the fourth incarnation of the film. Originally 95 minutes, Touch of Evil now runs for 111 minutes, three more than the previous version. In addition to eliminating several scenes added by the studio, the current version restores originally cut footage and re-edits several scenes for a total of about 50 changes in the film...
...office bomb at the time of its release, Touch of Evil has nevertheless been heralded as one of the masterpieces of the noir genre. Charlton Heston plays Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas, a Mexican narcotics investigator embroiled in a shady murder investigation just on the other side of the border. Heading the investigation is Captain Hank Quinlan, played by a padded and bloated Welles. When Quinlan's abuse of power proves too great an affront to Vargas' moral sensibilities, he soon involves both himself and his newlywed American wife, played by a feisty Janet Leigh, in the cutthroat bordertown brawl between...
...somehow Touch of Evil offers even more after those historic first three min- utes. Welles capitalizes on the B-movie budgetand fuses his technical limitations with thestory, creating a cohesive alienation. Combiningthe distortion of an 18.5 mm lens, the dizzyingdiscomfort of handheld cameras, the high contrastimages of low lighting, and the frighteninglyenormous figures produced by low angle shots, thefilm replaces surface normality with theunsettling...
...hung out a lot, had some great conversations and watched out for each other. The night before I went back to Connecticut and she three time zones away to California, we talked a long time. We promised to keep in touch...