Directed by Debra Granik, whose use of authentically barren locations in the Ozark mountains of Missouri pays chilly dividends, this adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's novel walks a thin line between downbeat rural realism and mythological gothic horror.
Beresford largely avoided the Victorian architecture and other picturesque elements of Waxahachie and instead focused on relatively barren locations more characteristic of West Texas.
Water samples from very high altitude locations, barren and forest parts could not be collected, hence restricting the effective sampling area to be about 450 km2.
Predation on tethered cod was highest at the edge of eelgrass patches, compared with barren and eelgrass locations; predation generally decreased with distance from the eelgrass boundary.
Trapped in a script (by Nader Rizq) that groans with sentiment and symbolism, Mr. Dorff looks a little lost, unconnected to the barren beauty of the Israeli locations that the Danish cinematographer, Dan Laustsen, takes pains to honor.
The twenty-minute black-and-white segment was produced for a television course at the University of California, Los Angeles, and conducted in the oil fields of the Los Angeles Basin, one of the locations that constituted the barren wasteland of his first feature, "Eraserhead" (1977).
The opening scene finds a caravan of threadbare players eating in grim silence on a barren strand before a blank sky, a foregrounded location that resembles a stage and immediately launches the story (which is set in 1846) into the symbolic realm.
Here he receives an extensive education from the Abbé Faria in the next cell; acquires an aristocratic, unearthly pallor, allowing him, later, to masquerade as both a lord and a vampire; and is told the location of an unimaginable treasure – a barren island known as Monte Cristo.
There is one key site in Ealing, which the council admits is "in need of modernisation", owing to sewage and access problems and its location in the middle of a barren industrial estate.
The location of the experimental setup on a barren land does not favour point discharge current because the sharp edges provided by plants and trees allow for point-discharge currents but in Antarctica there are no trees and plants hence, contribution of point-discharge current is negligible.
