Much of the mottled, grainy surface has an antique character, making his dominant forms look like interventions in some earlier world.
Girls of a certain age might covet the Bratz Mobile phone, which has a grainy screen that can display Bratz characters and a case smothered with Bratz stickers that began to peel off the minute I put in the battery.
But contained within this grainy 1994 shot, are some remarkable characters who have suddenly started to fascinate City bankers.
His varied tone – now grainy, now finely textured – sought out an individuality of character in each of the 36 movements while weaving each suite into an expressive whole.
"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good," said the lead character, Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, in a grainy YouTube video shown on Wednesday to a packed room in San Francisco's federal court.
The conversation is never broached again, and Ocean Beach never revisited, but some trace of both clouds the characters through the series; even inland, they stay grainy and gray, as though the camera were flecked with salt.
The characters and "stuff" in the store appear super grainy.
Everyone who followed his work with the Truckers knew he was one of America's thoroughbred songwriters, with a knack for rueful melodies and the kind of grainy blue-collar detail that pins a song in your mind, like the character in "Outfit" who winds up back in "tech school/just to memorize Frigidaire parts".
Everyone who followed his work with the Truckers knew he was one of America's thoroughbred songwriters, with a knack for rueful melodies and the kind of grainy blue-collar detail that pins a song in your mind, like the character in "Outfit" who winds up back in "tech school/just to memorize Frigidaire parts". But he'd lost his way.
But Jacquot grounds them in reality by cutting to and fro between the film studio in Cologne and the Roman settings (captured in blurred, grainy digital video as if he were photographing the subconscious reveries of the characters).
