On screen the show-stopping effects have been replaced by all the elaborate movie sets that a reported $ 70 million ( raised by Lloyd Webber and his company ) could muster, and enough lingeringly glamorous close-ups of the glowing young stars to fill a two-and-a-half-hour Calvin Klein perfume ad . ( Think Obsession or better yet, Eternity Moment, which is how the film sometimes feels .)
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Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in " The Guardian " in 2014, said " it is impossible to imagine photography s recent past and overwhelmingly confusing present without his lingeringly pervasive presence . " and that " The Americans " " changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it . [ . . . ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century ."
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In the autumn of 1944, the liberation of Belgrade seemed not far away . " Then, at ten o'clock, loud and clear, Radio Belgrade; Lili Marlene, sweet, insidious, melancholy .'Not much longer now,'we would say, as we switched it off . " As the Red Army was advancing on Belgrade, he reflected again on the song . " At Valjevo, as at so many other places [ . . . ] we would tune our wireless sets in the evening to Radio Belgrade, and night after night, always at the same time, would come, throbbing lingeringly over the ether, the cheap, sugary and almost painfully nostalgic melody, the sex-laden, intimate, heart-rending accents of Lili Marlene .'Not gone yet,'we would say to each other .'I wonder if we'll find her when we get there .'Then one evening at the accustomed time there was silence .'Gone away,'we said ."
