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...Coens' camera is a participant in the action, and worlds hipper than anyone on-screen. "Hi, I'm here," it as much as says, "and I'm soooo smart." It is too; it creates elegant riddles of space and time, then solves them with an originality that hits the viewer like a rabbit- punch line. The lovers repose in bed, a turnstile fan lazing above them, Venetian blinds notching shadows on their backs, and outside their window looms the detective. For a moment the low growl of Marty's backyard incinerator can be heard, and then the screen whitens...
Another option is a remote-control device. It generally allows a viewer, without leaving the LaZBoy, to stop and start the tape, pause, fast-scan in forward and reverse, or watch in "double speed," which is slower than fast-scan but faster than normal. Two types are available: those connected to the VCR by a long wire and the detached, infrared devices, which are less cumbersome and more expensive...
...built-in recorders. Dubbed camcorders, these new contraptions are lightweight (between 4 Ibs. and 7 Ibs.) and hand held. Once again, there are Beta and VHS versions. The VHS will record up to 20 minutes of video and sound on a single, tiny cassette. To watch the minimovie, the viewer can plug the camcorder directly into a television set or slip the miniature tape into an adapter that will play it back on a conventional VHS recorder. In contrast, the Beta version will record up to two hours on a standard Beta tape, but it cannot be used to play...
...imposes self-consciousness on the photos, becoming a big red photographic sic; even the most naturalistic portraits of Americans on the couch seem deliberately contrived artistic statements. The sofa, whether positioned in a patrician living room, balanced on an Alaskan canoe, or dumped on Rajneeshian haystack demands that the viewer look at the aesthetic and intellectual content of a medium that is often considered simple substitute for sight...
...pair seem to spend most of the picture either searching for each other through crowded trains (they ride the same commuter line into New York City) or waiting around the station or on street corners. The suspense, for the viewer, is not exactly killing. Neither is the wit of the dialogue that Writer Michael Cristofer has concocted for the lovers on the rare occasions when they meet. It generally consists of inarticulate expressions of desire and feeble excuses for not consummating it. In this they may be wise, since neither of their spouses is presented as anything but good-natured...