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...intersects film most lucidly in the dream sequence in Spellbound. Wanting to avoid the clichéd soft focus approach, Hitchcock sought out Salvador Dalí to help him depict an amnesiac patient's dream in the clarity of reality. "What I was looking for was the living side of dreams," said Hitchcock. "All of Dalí's work is very large with sharp angles, long views and black shadows." The result of the collaboration was grandiose - five different sets were built involving Dalí's painted decorations and miniature sets - but most of the scene ended...
...words rose and fell over the courtroom, hard to make out, yet clear enough at times to send looks of chilled surprise among the spellbound spectators: "...nigger...bomb...mother-f----' church... .bomb...plan...bomb...
...people, all trying to make sure they were included in the magic that was about to take place inside the hall. Magic it was. Five women and a sign language interpreter came dancing onto the stage, decked out in bright colours and African dress, and immediately the audience was spellbound by Sweet Honey in the Rock. The sight of the black female a cappella singers dancing beneath the statues of the dead naked white men from long ago that decorate the hall highlighted the power and immediacy of Sweet Honey. When Ysaye Barnwell used her effortless, supernatural vocal range...
Even before J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, British writer Brian Jacques (pronounced Jakes) was selling millions of 400-page books to spellbound children and parents. His 14-book Redwall series, featuring heroic medieval rabbits and mice battling evil rats, has more than 5 million books in print. Jacques, 61, hosts an animated public television series based on Redwall that begins airing in the U.S. this month, and has a new, eagerly awaited book, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, which chronicles the stirring adventures of young Ben and Ned, his faithful black Labrador. TIME spent a morning with Jacques...
...based on Céline's classic 1932 novel "Voyage au Bout de la Nuit." Wearing a worn jacket and a grey scarf, Luchini emerges onto a nearly empty stage. He peers into the distance with his round hazel eyes and, for the next 80 minutes, holds the audience spellbound with the first-person narrative of a young Frenchman's voyage to America on the eve of the Depression. He takes Céline's persona from the scary, impersonal streets of Manhattan to the mechanical bowels of a Ford factory in Detroit, and finally into the delicious arms...