Word: craftsmanship
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...real craftsmanship of Flatliners lies in its filming. Schumacher-whose past accomplishments include St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys --has a wonderful eye for mixing film media, toned film with color film with grainy black and white. The cuts between short scenes are nothing short of brilliant, and the segues between fantastic and real scenes breathtaking. Schumacher chose an appropriately gorgeous and gothic campus (Loyola University in Chicago), as well as sparse city streets that are supremely atmospheric, and bathed them in haunting blue light, tatters and haze...
Until recently, the same reaction would have greeted anybody with a notion of resurrecting the nearly moribund art of animation. Feature films as lavishly animated as Walt Disney classics like Fantasia and Pinocchio? That sort of craftsmanship seemed as antiquated as hand-stitched lace curtains. Cartoon shorts before the main feature in movie theaters? Too expensive -- and anyway, they would only slow down the parade of customers filing in and out of the multiplex. Animation in prime time? Went out with The Flintstones...
Computers, however, cannot replace human craftsmanship. "It is really difficult to duplicate the character quirks that an artist puts into animation," says Jean MacCurdy, chief of animation at Warner Bros. With animation in eclipse for so many years, finding those artists was a challenge. "Great animators are like great actors," says Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. "The talent pool is so small and so precious...
...mechanical, barracks unity that may have a certain utility if one's goal is aggressive expansion but has otherwise proved to be a failure. Solzhenitsyn's mistrust of the West, of progress in general, of science and democracy incline him to romanticize a patriarchal way of life and craftsmanship, to expect too much from the Russian Orthodox Church...
...paintings, each about the size of a notebook, are tiny treasures of artwork. Despite their small scale, they took months, even years, to complete, and their craftsmanship is impeccable...