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...title adequately describes Jarman's film. Challenging notions of what cinema is, this beautiful and eerie masterpiece consists of voices and music resounding over 76 minutes of blue screen. The only visual action is that produced by your own eyes, which fill the screen with lines, shadows and patches of light...
...what has got to be one of cinema's most striking scenes, Laura comes back to life. Well, sort of. Mark had fallen asleep staring at Laura's portrait, and wakes up to find Laura entering the apartment. The look on his face is one of absolutely sublime confusion. Andrews' face registers shock, amazement, and hesitant bliss' he isn't sure whether he is dreaming, or whether Laura has indeed risen from the dead...
...think there is "as much experimentation in nonfiction films as there should be," McElwee believes that this "objective" concept of the documentary is changing. "People are branching out while still relying upon an experience in reality intersected with the camera." "First," he says there was the "movement of cinema verite with people like [Harvard professors] Robert Gardner and Alfred Guzetti." Gardner has explored the cultures of Africa and India while trying not to impose his presence onto the culture. Guzetti has made films about his own family...
...case. The public was buying Philadelphia, or at least paying to see it. But among homosexuals all over the country the film was stoking an agitated debate. Their central questions: Is the movie accurate? Is it good for gays? And does its success mean a more gay- friendly cinema -- one that admits to the existence and humanity of this besieged minority...
Oddly enough, some of the most sensitive work dealing with homosexuality can be found on TV. Murphy Brown and Roseanne have featured amiable gay characters; how far behind TV dare the movies be? As film critic David Ehrenstein says, "The entire history of the cinema is about the mass audience forging an emotional identification with people whose experiences are not like theirs. You don't have to be a dockworker to identify with Brando in On the Waterfront or a Southern belle to identify with Scarlett O'Hara. If you create a persuasive character, the audience will come...