Reitman's film was shot largely on location, and it shows throughout, not just in its urban iconography but also in its city textures; it feels like a movie of a place — and a time.
Each collage features multiple layers of digital photographs of found and made objects, as well as posed models, natural city textures, and landscapes from Peru to Washington, D.C.
Sometimes called "darkwave," it has drawn praise for its late-night-in-the-city textures and spare ballads.
Vaginal Davis, in other words, is an essential component of the city's texture, which is why it pains one to note that he is leaving Los Angeles.
Mr. White and Mr. Willensky are especially helpful in unraveling the story of New York's unsung heroes who contributed mightily to the city's texture.
There has always been something about New Orleans, but particularly these days — after the storm and all the talk about what should and shouldn't be rebuilt and why — that gives locals the feeling that outsiders are destined to misapprehend the essence of the city, the texture of life at street level.
It is woven into the city's texture, in its arcades, its shoulder-wide alleys, odd terraces, house museums and specialty shops; secreted between and beside and atop and sometimes even within the big marquee attractions, hidden right there in plain sight.
With virtually all of Warsaw flattened by the Nazis, the new castles and pastel-colored burgher houses of Old Town lend the city a historic texture that is otherwise missing.
It is an apparent contradiction that speaks to the Russian roulette life of New Orleans, difficult to compress into overheated news reports yet part of this city's fragile texture.
