Word: affectionate
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Today almost every big-city downtown has new skyscrapers that endeavor to look like old skyscrapers. Almost every suburb has a shopping center decorated with phony arches, phony pediments, phony columns. Two decades after Venturi proposed, with the intellectual's standard perverse quasi-affection, that Vegas could be a beacon...
The show conveys the writers' affection for their chief performer. But it leaves unexplored the vital conflict within each writer and between them all -- the egotism of being an artist vs. the collaborative necessities of cranking out scripts at such speed. Indeed, not much about these people stamps them as...
Derek Jarman's ostensibly hip 1992 rendering of Christopher Marlowe's classic play is a fine example of how one can choke on one's own postmodernism. You won't be allowed to forget that the play was written centuries ago, but its timeliness (gay love, violently thwarted) will be...
His job is to supply the voices for a Sylvester-and-Tweety type of animated cartoon; he loses it when the villainous cat forces the victimized bird to inhale a cigarette and Daniel insists on improvising antismoking dialogue for the sequence, so that kids in the audience clearly understand the...
Campion has spun a fable as potently romantic as a Bronte tale. But The Piano is also deeply cinematic. It burrows into two essential obsessions of the oldest films: emotion conveyed without words, and the image of a man watching a woman. What is not traditional is that here the...