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...honorable, even commanding exceptions (see box), but the majority of clips now in circulation are labored ephemera with heavily imitative associations, fully worthy of one executive's dismissive characterization as "this year's satin jackets." Observes Temple: "A lot of videos steal surreal images from places like Zoom magazine and the French Vogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing a Song of Seeing | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...journey itself takes on epic proportions, though like most great Russian picaresques (such as Dead Souls) the distance traveled is insignificant and indeed pointless. His monologue, punctuated only by the names of train stations along the Moscow-Petushki line, lurches into and out of reality like a rusty zoom lens. Sometimes whispered confession, sometimes giddy rhetoric, it continually breaks into schizoid dialogue, accosting the reader as an ill-at-ease fellow-traveler and involuntary confidant...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Hollow Spirits | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

...voted the Most Popular Film at the Montreal Film Festival, and is an overwhelming box-office success in its native Australia. The setting is breathtaking, and the camera skillfully captures the ominous power of the terrain and the majesty of the wold horse pack. The opening shots, which zoom in as stallions thunder across the plain silhouetted against an electric blue sky, are particularly magnificent...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Same Old Frontier Epic | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Malley, for his part, can not only drink and seduce woman, but he can stunt-fly and shoot almost as well as Eve. As the mercenary-who's-really-a-nice-gay-in-the-end, he has a long pedigree in cinema history. If his propellers could only zoom him into hyperspace he could be Han Solo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Well-Worn Road | 3/22/1983 | See Source »

...great hates are photographers and the destruction of wildlife. She attributes her sympathy for the latter to her abhorrence of the former. ("I hate photographers. They don't allow us to live... That's why I can understand wild animals being pursued by men with rifles. Zoom lenses are like weapons.") Today, when she is not campaigning for baby seals, she divides her time between her Saint-Tropez villa and a farm just west of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Confessions of a Femme Fatale | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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