Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concentrate on what Smith does best. He is foremost a writer; he is out to tell a story, hoping to present new and thought-provoking ideas along the way. Unfortunately, he packs so many ideas into Dogma that his directing cannot always keep up with the ambitious screenplay. At times you feel as though you're listening to the Word according to Kevin; not an expert on subtlety, his characters--particularly Rufus-- windily spell out every religious insight he introduces. It shouldn't be a surprise Smith relies so heavily on dialog. He is incapable of communicating his ideas using...
...More adventurous commercial galleries and various cooperatives have congregated in the last several years along Harrison and Thayer, a sparsely populated area of warehouses, some rehabilitated and some abandoned, on the outskirts of the South End. As gallery director Bernard Toale puts it, the "landscape-and-sailboat dealers will never want to come down here." The difference between the Newbury and the South End galleries is apparent on several levels. On Newbury, the general emphasis is on representational painting; in the South End, I saw more mixed media. In the South End, the directors are chatty and amiable, even towards...
...South End, home of many of Boston's best galleries, a group called GTI Properties has bought up many of the decaying warehouses along Harrison Ave., fixing them up and making them into lofts, studios and gallery spaces. On one of these buildings hang purple and yellow banners announcing this as the "SoWa District"--south of Washington St. The acronym has not caught...
...Shlomo who frames the entire movie. He is the village fool, but following a long literary and dramatic tradition, this fool is ultimately the wisest of them all. Not only does Shlomo come up with the original fake deportation train idea, but he continually saves the day along the dangerous journey to freedom by coming up with more silly and crazy plans. He is simple, carefree and innocent, and this allows him to be, at times, the only one who is fully aware of what is at stake in their struggle. French actor Lionel Abelanski is blessed with an endearing...
...Train of Life is a fabulous deception, a wonderful fairy tale that tries to tame the cynic in everyone into submission. It might seem sappy, it's certainly not real and it is depressing even as it takes the audience along on its life-giving journey. To even hint at the ending would be unfair, but let's just say it puts a powerful spin on how the rest of the movie is remembered. Memory was never so bittersweet, but fairy tales were never so skillfully told...