Word: spellbound
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...Zippel, from the adaptation of the book by Charlotte Jones, are mostly flat when they should seep with accumulating terror. The script is also far less subtle than the original. Collins' Fosco is a fascinating creation - obese, aging and yet with a mind of such deviousness that Marian is spellbound. "He looks," she writes in her diary, "like a man who could tame anything ? the man has attracted me." Onstage, Fosco is reduced to a clownish rogue. "As we Italians say, The plot, she thickens," he giggles. Nonetheless, Crawford, who followed Phantom by retreating to a Las Vegas showcase...
...Like the other Venice works, it is carved from the light, blond wood of the rubber tree, jelutong. Any paler and it would disappear into the walls. Up close, the forensic detail - a lobster springs up with the alacrity of an ocean wave, the rind of a lemon dangles spellbound over the table's edge - can send shivers up spines...
...interviewer was Stephen Colbert, correspondent for “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. Cornering his subject on the mechanics of changing a tire—a point of no relevance to the campaign whatsoever—Colbert held a posse of credentialed media and delegates spellbound, eagerly awaiting his next unscripted quip...
...just politics,” she says. “They aren’t film festivals, they are film markets. Everyone wants to premiere at Sundance, so it’s really hard for independent, American documentaries to get accepted.” Micheli sees the 2002 documentary Spellbound as a type of model. “Spellbound didn’t premiere at Sundance, it just got more and more popular through word of mouth. That’s the case study...
...brought together in a small village in the Alps. Their lives interweave with two romantic relationships, and the birth and death of two children. The story is told against sweeping, gorgeous landscape panoramas of the snowy Alps, and Tykwer quotes from films like Hitchcock’s Spellbound and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to present his analysis of a confused, noncommittal generation. 9 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students. Harvard Film Archives...