Recently named to the Academy Awards' documentary short list, Mark Hopkins' remarkable film follows four doctors in Liberia and the Congo, in sequences at once grueling and inspiring.
Everything is supersized here in terms of severity. -- Dr. Tom Krueger It was a pretty major shock when I got here," says Dr. Tom Krueger. "You can't describe the smells, the heat on your body, the sweat down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose. of unwashed bodies in a closed room, no circulation, you know, the smell of your own panic. You're not sure what to do. You can't…...
Everything is supersized here in terms of severity. -- Dr. Tom Krueger It was a pretty major shock when I got here," says Dr. Tom Krueger. "You can't describe the smells, the heat on your body, the sweat down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose. of unwashed bodies in a closed room, no circulation, you know, the smell of your own panic. You're not sure what to do. You can't…...
- 12/14/2009
- by Cynthia Fuchs
- PopMatters
- Bono looks better with his shades on. National Geographic Cinema Ventures are thinking along the same lines - except with those funny looking 3D glasses. Variety reports that the concert documentary U2 3D will make a theatrical run in late January. You can get a Youtube peak of a trailer below - the quality will be somewhat better I imagine in theaters. Directed by Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies) and Catherine Owens, the takes less than 2 hours out of the 700 hours of footage shot of the band in seven South American cities during February and March. Trekking across Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, the film's 3-D director of photography Peter Anderson ("T2 3-D: Battle Across Time") used nine pairs of Sony Cinealta 950 cameras to capture the band with swooping camera angles and kaleidoscopic imagery. The director of cinematography for the film's 2-D footage is Tom Krueger. This is the
- 10/29/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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