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There is also a clear illusion to PSYCHO.
We have to watch them again these old films, these first talkies, to ,be able to appreciate what modern films have to offer but also what we have lost along the way, a lot more than we may think, and particularly the magic of black and white illusion.
Where 'The Blair Witch Project' drew me in and ably created the atmosphere of immersion, 'The Last Broadcast' improperly used shots from impossible camera angles (there are several shots in the ending where the only people present are in the frame and the camera placement was improbable for the story), ruining the illusion of the 'documentary'.
I feel like I grew up in a generation where -- I knew how a blue screen worked when I was a five-year-old, and growing up with magazines like Cinefex around, there's no illusion to it.
It also detracts from the illusion the film so effortlessly produces on the screen at the start; it all just becomes so standard an routine when it seemed to be so much more.
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is the blackly funny, often pitifully sad portrayal of a has-been silent star, alive as if against the knowledge of the outside world, in her misshapen manor, screening her old films, imagining unstoppably, relentlessly, of a return, that she is under the illusion will vindicate her fans, who all feel robbed of her.
Some movies are overwhelming with a power to evoke passion in a viewer, which wraps them up in the director's illusion throughout the runtime.
They have no illusion that in the midst of a financial crisis and a speculative exodus, vast deficit spending and easy money are not the answer.
Bezos’s move is not like the recent purchases of Newsweek, where there was an illusion of turning it around, or the Boston Globe, bought by John Henry, who owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team and Liverpool Football Club.
But like the sight lines in Versailles Hall of Mirrors, the image of a powerful German Chancellor is an illusion.
Konrad Adenauers and Willi Brandts foreign policy achievements created the illusion of the German Chancellors power.
If people do not expect inflation, the illusion of increased purchasing power can boost employment and output for a relatively short period.
The Nazis’ apparent success in defying economic orthodoxy looked to many conventionally minded analysts like an illusion.
As in the past, when the illusion of today’s painless economic expansion ends, politics will return to the fore, and trade wars may lead to troop deployments.
There should be no illusion that the transformation that the protesters started will be smooth.
This may be a temporary lull or a statistical illusion.
The problem is that the semblance of choice in libertarian paternalism is an illusion.
Hence, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has squandered a valuable opportunity to send out a message of hope to the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims, one that would have rid the world of the grand global illusion that peacemaking is a “white man’s burden.”
Power may be increasingly illusory in a globalized world, but it is an illusion that is shared by others, and the longer one inhabits it, the more one’s circle consists of others who share the belief.
His followers in Russia are unlikely to see, let alone be influenced by, an art film, and this sliver of Russian free expression might just persuade foreigners that there is still some liberalism left in Putin’s authoritarian democracy – at least until that, too, ends up as a shattered illusion.
Ethiopia’s Struggle for DemocracyWhen we in Ethiopia’s political opposition agreed to participate in the election that the government called in June, we were under no illusion that the process would be faultless.
Undertaking such a lengthening while events can be controlled need not cause any losses other than taking away the illusion of liquidity which investors now entertain but could not exercise because Brazil could not pay them.
In short, the isolation of the export sector from the rest of China’s economy, caused by the dominance of FDI, accounts for the illusion of an undervalued renminbi.
Qaddafi’s Long ShadowANTALYA – The recent coup attempt in Libya, led by General Khalifa Hiftar, has finally pierced the illusion that the country’s dysfunctional central government, whose power is limited to the capital, Tripoli, can rule effectively.
Or the enterprise stays where it often seems to be: mostly smoke and mirrors, a grand illusion.
This is a new European illusion.
There is neither the illusion nor the desire to hold onto captured territories permanently, or to build Jewish settlements, and Israel has virtually no international support for any of these goals.
The Indian media are doing their part to strengthen the illusion of progress, latching onto the phrase “closest partners” in their acclaim for the agreement.
But, by the end of their speeches this year, any remaining illusion about the values motivating Davos CEOs was shattered.
And we should do so under no illusion that the transformative outcome we need will be a smooth, incremental process.
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