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Lena:

My Hundred

days it would rain all day long. We
a
tough, mostly uncomplain¬
ing crew, standing and working in
the rain for eight or ten hours, with
the temperature at 45 or 50 degrees.
Sometimes my hands were so cold I
couldn't even press the meter.
There's always a good side and a
bad side, though,'' he smiles. "The

Kuchler Silberman, Lena: My Hun¬
dred Children is a haunting story
about the frightened children left

bad was, the weather was

behind by

had

foul. The

good side is that it looks beautiful.
You
No

never see
one

the rain in the film.

back here believes it

was

Children
Eric Van Haren Noman
Based

book

by Lena

the ravages of World War
begins in 1945

II in Poland. The film
as

the remnants of the Polish Jews

return to their war-torn homeland

and

raining."

on a

attempt to reconstruct their cit¬

ies, families, and lives. The story
centers around

Shooter

Gayne Rescher, ASC
Shooter takes place

Recognized,
for

Over 65 Years,

against the back¬
drop of the Viet Nam war. It is the
story of an award-winning photog¬
rapher who risks life and limb to
expose the atrocities taking place in
Southeast Asia during the 60's. A
wide variety of Oriental locations
surrounds Rescher's intense
bat

chil¬
rich,
dark cinematography accents the
story's somber, almost hopeless
setting.
Biographical information
on

Eric Van Haren Noman

available at press

Episodic Television
Moonlighting
"Here's Living
With You, Kid"
Gerald Perry

for

Motion Picture

Finnerman, ASC

and
row, an

Television
Titles

213-464*0121

For the second year in a
episode of Moonlighting has

been nominated for the ASC
Award. From its beginning, the

Gayne Rescher, ASC

Rescher, himself a fighter
pilot in the European theater dur¬
ing World War II, attended Massa¬
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Last year, he was nominated for an
ASC Award and won an Emmy for
Promise. His photography on The
Day After was nominated for a 1984
Emmy. His feature credits include
Rachel, Rachel, A New Leaf, A Face in
the Crowd, (co-credit with Harry
Stradling, ASC), the Cinerama fea¬
ture Seven Wonders of the World,
and

the

Cinemiracle

Windjammer.
70

was un¬

time.

footage in the film.

Standard of
Excellence

Optical Effects

compassionate

com¬

as THE

and

a

who takes orphaned
dren under her wing. The

woman

April 1989

picture

popular show has had Gerald Fin¬
nerman to thank for its
distinctively
glamorous look. However, the
"Here's Living With You, Kid" epi¬
sode was a departure from the nor¬
mal Moonlighting shoot. The script
called for much of the comedy to be
set in black and white, against
shockingly exact replications of
two classic films:

The Sheik and

Casablanca, with the Moonlighting
characters playing out the famous
roles for

laughs.
"My approach has always
been the same," says Finnerman.
"It features very heavy crosslight¬
ing and halftones. But this particu¬
lar episode was involved because
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