Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]not an M8 http://www.cinemaisdope.com/news/films/vickycristinabarcelona/penelopecruz.jpg On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter@bex.net> wrote: > Went to Woody Allen's new one tonight, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", and was > treated to the sight of two of my favorite things: Pen?lope Cruz and, in > her > lovely hands, a chrome M. Didn't get a good look at it, even though I > manfully tore my eyes away from its user for a few seconds, but it was > red-dotted. It looked big enough for an M8, but as Ms Cruz's character made > a point of bringing it out as a film camera in response to Scarlett > Johansson's continual use of a digicam, I'm guessing that it was a 7 or > possibly a 6 (is my faith in Hollywood prop departments misplaced? Surely > they wouldn't have just used a nearby M8 in the role of a film camera....). > Couldn't quite tell whether the left top corner was angled. Will have to > rent the DVD?to have another look at, ahem, the camera. Just to make sure. > Over and over, as many times as necessary. > > The movie was excellent. Outstanding performance by Pen?lope and excellent > by Javier Bardem as a clich?d tempestuous Latin > love/hate-each-0ther-but-can't-live-with/without-each-other//incredibly > beautiful and voluptuous, unstable, volatile, practically bipolar > suicidal-homicidal//smoulderingly sensual, roughly handsome, impossibly > hypermasculine// hot-blooded pair of artists, and (if hers was acting) a > good one by Johansson as a clich?d somewhat bimboid, chronically restless, > bedhopping American something-or-other. Typical Woodmanic self-analytic > dialogue and complex interpersonal dynamics and multilevel conflicts, with > a > rapid descent to an ending that was a bit undernourished. Several minutes > of > red-lit darkroom scenes as well. Well worth seeing, as well for the lovely > Spanish setting as for the story. Envy is directed toward our Iberian > LUGgers and MUGgers, especially Barcelonianos (you know who you are, > luisripoli). > > --howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana USA