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...back, only better. The Lomo LC-A+ is now handmade in China, but the look is still Soviet cool. And the lens still comes from the St. Petersburg factory, so the visual quirks - intense colors, sharp contrast, wacky focus - remain intact. A new multiple exposure switch allows unlimited shots on a single frame, while the added cable release lets you fire the shutter from afar. At $320, this model also costs more, but one thing hasn't changed: Lomo is sticking to film. Says Lomographic Society head Matthias Fiegl: "Because young people are used to digital photography, analog is special...
...taking as he prepared the ambitious movie romance called The Fountain. His previous films, the no-budget Pi (1998) and the low-budget Requiem for a Dream (2000), both quirky art-house hits, had been on the somber side, to put it mildly. To put it accurately, they were visual monologues that took place inside the deranged minds of their protagonists - respectively, a math whiz obsessed by the number 216 and a heroin addict with a possessive (and understandably perplexed) mom. Instantly, anybody could see that Aronofsky was one of the few American filmmakers who saw the cinema past...
...Aronofsky brings every bit as much cinematic audacity to this film as he did to his first two, building elaborate visual motifs: Tree rings as a Mayan tattoo and as cloud formations; foliage that surrounds Tomas in the 16th century and grows through him in the 26th. Just as you didn?t have to be a junkie to appreciate Requiem or a member of the Kabbalah to go for Pi, you don?t have to be moved to tears by The Fountain to admire its complexity...
...following fields have been approved: Romance Languages and Literatures, Sociology, Visual and Environmental Studies, Linguistics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, History of Art and Architecture, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Folklore and Mythology, according to Kenen...
...long post-“X-Men” career. Weisz is charming and perfectly cast in her role as Tommy’s dying wife; the two play a convincing couple teetering on death. What really sets “The Fountain” apart is its visual and aural playing field. Using a variety of analog effects created by filming chemical reactions and other real-life activity, the visual landscape is a welcome and fascinating departure from today’s ubiquitous computer-generated artificiality; the shimmering water in front of the Fountain of Youth and the wild...