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...used to it now because I have to be. It's not his job, it's his passion." - Nicole Robert, on her husband's dangerous pastime. (London Daily Telegraph, June 23, 2005) (See the Shadowless Skyscraper in the Best Inventions...
...animals stand motionless in gold-white grasses -- zebras and impala, Thomson's gazelles and Cape buffalo and hartebeests and waterbuck and giraffes, and wildebeests by the thousands, all fixed in art naif, in a smiting equatorial light. They stand in the shadowless clarity of creation...
John Donne asked, "Was not the first man, by the desire of knowledge, corrupted even in the whitest integrity of nature?" The animals are a last glimpse of that shadowless life, previous to time and thought. They are a pure connection to the imagination...
...also gorgeous to look at, a triumph of craft and audacity for a novice feature-film director. Top Cinematographer Ed Lachman (Union City, Desperately Seeking Susan) has shot the film with the shadowless clarity of postcards and Polaroids. The Narrator's convertible streaks down the highway like a big red Road Runner, and the Laziest Woman in the World (Swoosie Kurtz) vegetates in a tidy mansion surrounded by the bleak glamour of the Texas plains -- civilization's affront to parched nature. Byrne's framing of the actors, like his sense of humor, is just off center and right on target...
...STRANGE NOTION: people living "inside a flattened cylinder fifty metres round and eighteen high," bounded by hard rubber walls, pulsing with shadowless yellow light, oscillating between extreme heat and cold--"abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." A first reaction: as if among an audience, hearing a doubtful line, you are tempted to snicker, until looking around you see all the rest staying silent and sober, and the glint in the speaker's eye refusing to lighten his dead...