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...itself. He is stretching the boundaries of where the techniques of film-making has been taken. He employs unusual lighting, off-kilter camera angles, animation and special computer effects which distort the stills. He uses clips from old films one after another in odd places: westerns outside hotel windows, horror flicks making up the horizon where they drive. In the hands of a more skillful story teller, Stone's visual talent could reinforce instead of detracting from the point being made. Unfortunately, though, Stone seems too arrogant to allow his voice to be hampered or his visual talents honed...
...latest bulletins from the germ front come on top of a long series of horror stories. For years now people have been reading about -- and suffering from -- all sorts of new and resurgent diseases. As if AIDS were not enough to worry about, there was a rise in other sexually transmitted infections, including herpes, syphilis and gonorrhea. People heard about the victims who died in the Northwest from eating undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers tainted with a hazardous strain of E. coli bacteria. They were told to cook their chicken thoroughly to avoid food poisoning from salmonella bacteria...
...pictures would eventually be splashed across front pages around the world, but he came away from the scene in a funk. First, there was the horror of having witnessed murder. Perhaps as importantly, while a few colleagues had framed the scene perfectly, Carter was reloading his camera with film just as the executions took place. "I knew I had missed this f------ shot," he said subsequently. "I drank a bottle of bourbon that night...
...Hollywood line is that this has been a summer of adult movies. But Forrest Gump, Wolf and Clear and Present Danger are not primarily for adults -- that is, for grownups in search of films a bit more demanding than those in the standard coming-of-age, horror and thriller genres. Somebody has to wonder: Can there be other kinds of pictures? And if they exist, can they connect with a sufficient number of appreciative viewers...
Filmmakers may try, but no movie will match the real-life horror described in Richard Preston's The Hot Zone (Random House; 302 pages; $23). The book, due in stores later this month, is an expanded version of the New Yorker article that sent Hollywood scrambling...