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...crucial historical footage was the Zapruder film, for a copy of which Stone paid $40,000. "It's the most important visual record we have of the assassination," says Sklar. "To make a movie without it is to miss a lot." Over and over, at the climax of JFK, Garrison plays the fatal shot -- tragedy as therapy -- to help solve the mystery and restore the fearful impact of the day that yanked a nation out of its cocoon of innocence. For all its cynicism, or even paranoia, about official venality, the film is a call for a kind of informed...
...Your movies emphasize the visual aspect of film heavily. Many of your scenes look painstakingly composed, like baroque painings...
...painter and an art historian. Painting is undersung-99% of all films have a literary base. Film should have more confidence in itself; it should rely on other art forms. All these art forms are related. What I would like to do is regard cinema as a visual meeting with the audience. In a way it isn't. It relies too much on soundtrack, dialogue, story. Continuity of painting through and into cinema is important. You need an attitude of composition, color coding, symbols and metaphors. Cinema is going...
...Cinema is social-the audience must move towards it. TV is passive-selection is not important. 90% of the audience's concentration is on cinema screen. It's not much more than 50% for TV. For my films, the audience needs to pay attention... We need to develop a visual language, a combination of song dances, calligraphy, all contemporary languages...
Hamlet, under Ron Daniels' direction, successfully captivates the audience for the full three-and-a-half hours. The play is a powerful visual experience and an artistic accomplishment. More importantly, Hamlet's theatrical achievements never cloud the focus of the play-to show how one responds to suffering and uncertainty in one's life...