Page B15 Arts TANTALIZED BUT CAUTIOUS, DIRECTORS CAPTURE MYANMAR Two new features, a documentary and a biographical film about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, portray Myanmar (formerly Burma), a land long isolated from the West.
I'm sure that there is a myriad of technicalities behind the continued unease with which directors capture the intoxicated enjoyment of hundreds of people crammed into a near lightless box while music plays extremely loudly.
In Exitum, the sentimental, ten-minute short is both a document and memento, as the directors captured the final days of the eponymous house that stood for 150 years in San Fransisco's Cow Hollow District before getting destroyed.
In the film, Tom Hardy (who plays Stuart) and the director capture the mood in one tiny, wordless snippet, when Tom is pictured through the window of a prison van, being "ghosted" from one gaol to the next.
I think the way Michael Slovis, the art director, captured New Mexico was extraordinary.
He is the author-director capturing select visual details, providing a voice-over, giving lines and actions to unnamed bit players.
But in Body of Lies, the director captured the basic points I wanted to make about America's miscomprehension of the Arab world in the years after 9/11".
The last time a director captured this kind of life so well on screen was when Spike Lee made "She's Gotta Have It".
Brian Large, the video director, captures Mr. Domingo's magnetic portrayal better, I think, than Franco Zeffirelli does in his film version of "Otello".
Amaral's impersonation elicits smiles and recognition, and in these moments, the director captures various individuals' personal memories of their own real-life encounters with the Prophet Kindness.
Whatever happened in New York, the local team — also including Nathan W. Perry, the musical director — captures a generous let's-put-on-a-show spirit that coincides with the musical's plot, in which a couple of Broadway stars, a pair of singing sisters and a gang of enthusiastic chorus "kids" mount a brassy show to revive a failing Vermont inn.
