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...through blunt, explicit lines, but through the carefully directed actions of his characters. The film’s settings seem almost drawn onto the screen, taken directly out of a picture book. Bandini’s apartment, in particular—with only a barren palm tree visible through the window and a small desk and dirty bed—looks as though it was furnished for a live audience watching the opening scene of a play. Even with Towne’s substantial creativity, “Ask the Dust” would have crashed and burned without...
...basement - me and my dog - so I didn't hear a thing," said Yvonne McCauley, 77, who was out during the curfew walking her dog, Molly. "But when I came out, my neighborhood, it was terrible to see. My neighbor's car was squashed, and another neighbor had a tree that crashed on his house. Me, I just feel lucky. Very lucky...
...dearly - I look at it and think, This is a small miracle"), De Heer is just as proud of the effect the film will have on the lives of the Yolngu. "One of the great things at the end of the shoot was that Minygululu had picked out the tree that he was going to make his canoe from the next year," says the director, "and he'd picked out the route of his journey." For audiences too, Ten Canoes will map out new realms of understanding...
Winkle, the hero of an early 19th-century folk tale, sleeps under a shady tree in the Catskill Mountains for 20 years before returning to his village, which had been turned upside down during the Revolutionary...
...time GORDON PARKS died last week at 93 in his New York City home, he had made his way through a succession of fields--photography, literature, film--and left enduring work in every one. The novelist who wrote The Learning Tree also composed concertos; the poet also directed Shaft. But it's as a photographer that Parks will be remembered most. Especially at LIFE, where, as the first African American on its photo staff, he could shoot a Brazilian slum or a Paris fashion show with the same sure mastery. Above all, he made countless pictures of African-American life...