Perhaps Stephen Michael Shearer and Ruth Barton were both drawn by the startling contrast between her eerie on-screen stillness and a life full of drama and agitation to the point of incoherence.
The absolute displacement coordinate system of the diffraction light spot took a stillness screen as a reference.
From his early days on Chancer and Sharman to Croupier, the film that made his name in Hollywood, and through to Gosford Park and Closer, he has displayed the rare ability to transmit a captivating stillness to the screen.
There's an almost otherworldly aspect to her screen presence, partly due to her stillness and her own translucent eyes, which can suggest grave intensity or utter detachment.
Yet, having watched them both again, on the big screen, I can testify to the stillness of the audience around me, rapt and tensed as the dramas unfurled.
But it seems to me Millais imagines Ophelia quite differently: in a strange and fascinating state of stillness, drifting past the screen of the picture-frame: I imagine from right to left.
Watching the two fuss, fidget, scheme and complain, it's apparent why Mr. Rush and Ms. Davis, who rarely do anything unobtrusively on screen, were cast opposite Ms. Rampling, whose beauty and watchful stillness can function as a powerful centripetal force.
I am loving my "Stillness Buddy," a great new download that allows your screen to be interrupted by meditative messages for short moments that you can set up at any interval during the day.
In the stillness of a hot summer afternoon, the most pervasive sound is a banging screen door.
He wanted to catch the kind of "measured stillness" of Yasujirō Ozu's film "Tokyo Story," which he had recently screened at the StudioFilmClub, a cinematheque that he and the Trinidadian artist Che Lovelace had founded in 2003.
