Sunday, June 28, 2009
the eerie brightness of nighttime
Mr. Mann’s digital manipulations, in particular, which encompass almost pure abstraction and interludes of hyper-realism, is worthy of longer exegesis, one that explores how this still-unfamiliar format is changing the movies: it allows, among other things, filmmakers to capture the eerie brightness of nighttime as never before.
~ Manohla Dargis in her New York Times review of Public Enemies.
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- no light will project them
- the waitress turns kitchenward, her ankle blooms w...
- the eerie brightness of nighttime
- what you gotta do is play your own simple blues
- a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around ...
- voices instead of colors
- quietly obscene
- in silence the heart
- now is, all there is
- but a dream
- suspected
- the universe will soon
- disciplined
- sincere and lilting tone
- bolting
- desperate enough just to do anything
- as close to their reflections
- spring breeze
- conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage
- the moment of a yawn
- I want to walk like I'm the onlywoman on earth and...
- rounded with a sleep
- night breeze
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