Monday, December 15, 2003, 9:31:20 AM, one spoke:
B> in case you wonder why I reply only now - I had been on the phone
B> ... ;-))) ... naw ... I posted my query, went to work, and
B> returning home I find my inbox overflowing with response ... thanx
B> so much for the wonder- and insightful suggestions so far ... I
B> really appreciate your help ... should even more examples/texts
B> come to mind, please let me know ... in fact, my initial idea came
B> from horror and (post)modern noir films, and I thought I might
B> expand this into a larger project ...
Conveniently enough, just a couple nights ago I saw Satoshi Isaka's
_[focus]_, in which a TV news crew profiling a cellphone "scanner"
enthusiast encounter difficulties after intercepting a call between
two gangsters ... the hardware probably has as much C/U time on screen
as any of the characters during the first half of the film. [cf the
work of British sound artist Robin Rimbaud, a/k/a "scanner"]
A conversation in/with a phone booth is a key scene in _The
President's Analyst_.
And dare I mention _Charlie's Angels_? ... Another character "visible"
only through closeups of a telephone is the Hollywood producer in
Albert Brooks' _Real Life_.
I have not-so-vivid memories of a scene somewhere in which a phone
continues to [very close-mic'ed] ring/have the antagonist on the other
end after its wires have been ripped out of the wall ... is this the
last sequence in _The Conversation_ or am I remembering something
completely different?
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Jim Flannery
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np: Harvey Milk, _Courtesy and Good Will toward Men_
nr: Frank Stanford, _The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You_
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