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via FoxyTunes Rankin: Shooting stars
In a unique set of portraits, the photographer Rankin meets the cream of talent to celebrate the very best of British film. Introduction by John Walsh. Captions by Simon UsborneFlirting with self-parody, Ray Winstone is flashing Vs at the camera; he seems to be abusing the celebrity photographer Rankin. Leading man Mark Strong and character actor Timothy Spall are both gurning at the lens as though impatient at its intrusion in their elevated lives. Both Imelda Staunton and Adrian Lester are ill-advisedly winking. James Nesbitt is baring vampiric teeth, while a sleek Joely Richardson is baring acres of death-pale neck, like a vampire's wet dream...
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (15)
The film is haunting to look at but this comes at the expense of nearly everything else: pace, excitement, humour, contrast, depth. Reviewed by Anthony Quinn
If cinema was only about an ability to deliver striking images – of landscape, of weather, of human beings caught in their time – then Andrew Dominik's long, lyrical account of the twilight months of Jesse James and his gang would be held in very high regard.
Photographed in a medley of browns, ochres and golds by Coen Brothers regular Roger Deakins, it has the look of a daguerreotype in which figures behind the glass frame seem to shrug off their pictorial stiffness and breathe the air of 1880s Missouri and Kansas. Sometimes the edges of the screen blur, as if we are watching events unfold through the flawed, rippled glass of a 19th-century window. [The Independent]
ΚΙ ΑΥΤΟ: The Assassination of Jesse James [Cosmo Landesman, From The Sunday Times, December 2, 2007]
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