Word: voyeurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irritating secondary theme, scored for piccolo. That theme is William Vollmann, whom the author finds boundlessly fascinating. He can't stay out of his own novels, and he capers in and out of them, representing himself typically as William the Blind, a very clever, very naughty historical voyeur. The first volumes of the Seven Dreams cycle are successful novels despite Vollmann's frequent first-person kibitzing. His new book, The Rifles (Viking; 411 pages; $22.95), is an exasperating hash of fiction, op-ed attitudinizing, men's magazine heroics, cut-and-paste history and confessional autobiography...
...actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally it is his job to let the world observe him. It's hard work, reconciling the natures of voyeur and exhibitionist. And when stardom falls on an actor, it is tougher to play the role demanded by the press and public: himself...
...Accompanist" is another French film featuring voyeurism and a diva, but with a twist. Seducing the audience with vibrant singing, the film suggests that voyeur and diva are not inherently dissimilar, but are separated by the constraints of nature and circumstance...
...attractive actress on-screen for 1 1/2 hours and mostly . . . just . . . watch . . . her. She poses at a window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become the X ray of anguish: not stargazing but soul gazing...
...make Voyeur, Propaganda Films shot live actors in an empty room and then combined their digitized images with computer-generated sets -- beds, desks, windows. To make Switch, an interactive motion picture to be released next year, director Mary Lambert rented Sound Stage 5 at the Hollywood Center Studios. Watching a scene in which actress Deborah Harry, dressed in a skintight dress with a plunging neckline, strides into a chamber decorated with ancient Egyptian props is like stepping back into the studios of the 1930s...