{"id":608,"date":"2008-05-09T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=608"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:05:48","slug":"falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Falling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen13.jpg\" title=\"Hi, sailor\u2026.\" alt=\"Hi, sailor\u2026.\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Each and every frame a painting: From Tarsem&#8217;s 2006 film, <\/em>The Fall<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/tarsem.jpg\" title=\"Hi. I\u2019m Tarsem!\" alt=\"Hi. I\u2019m Tarsem!\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" \/>Like the best directors\u2014Scorsese, Spielberg, Hitchcock\u2014Tarsem, right, 46, is known to peers by one name, though it&#8217;s his first, not his last. (His full name is Tarsem Singh Dhandwar.)<\/p>\n<p>You, though, may know him by his visually delirious works: the landmark, 1991 R.E.M. music video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M7vs21ZKrKM\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Losing My Religion,&#8221;<\/a> or 2000&#8217;s Jennifer Lopez thriller, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-eCD5Nuoyi4\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>The Cell<\/em><\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His latest film, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/independent\/thefall\/hd\/\"  target=\"_blank\">The Fall<\/a><\/em>, out today, continues Tarsem&#8217;s penchant for filling the camera&#8217;s lens with shocking, lush, and arresting images. The story of a mysterious storyteller who meets a little girl while both are healing in a hospital, <em>The Fall<\/em> had been held up for years, waiting for a distributor, until it was championed by two other great stylists, David Fincher (<em>Se7en<\/em>; <em>Fight Club<\/em>; <em>Zodiac<\/em>) and Spike Jonze (<em>Being John Malkovich<\/em>; <em>Adaptation<\/em>), who are presenting it for its theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve filled the rest of this post with frames from <em>The Fall<\/em>. Feast your eyes, below, or gorge on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/independent\/thefall\/hd\/\"  target=\"_blank\">the hi-def trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen121.jpg\" title=\"S\u2019up\u2026\" alt=\"S\u2019up\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen18.jpg\" title=\"Don\u2019t\u2026fall\u2026get it?\" alt=\"Don\u2019t\u2026fall\u2026get it?\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen22.jpg\" title=\"I pity the fool\u2026\" alt=\"I pity the fool\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen20.jpg\" title=\"Chroma\u2026\" alt=\"Chroma\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen14.jpg\" title=\"I gotta do this every time I turn the page in the newspaper\u2026\" alt=\"I gotta do this every time I turn the page in the newspaper\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen17.jpg\" title=\"Little girl\" alt=\"Little girl\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen11.jpg\" title=\"Valet!\" alt=\"Valet!\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/screen211.jpg\" title=\"I need to stop perpetratin\u2019\u2026I\u2019m lost as hell\u2026\" alt=\"I need to stop perpetratin\u2019\u2026I\u2019m lost as hell\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each and every frame a painting: From Tarsem&#8217;s 2006 film, The Fall Like the best directors\u2014Scorsese, Spielberg, Hitchcock\u2014Tarsem, right, 46, is known to peers by one name, though it&#8217;s his first, not his last. (His full name is Tarsem Singh Dhandwar.) You, though, may know him by his visually delirious works: the landmark, 1991 R.E.M. 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