Word: americana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undulating rhythm of this unmistakable Boston landmark is nothing short of hypnotic. Something of an Eiffel Tower of the Northeast--and of course a beacon for drunken B.U. students after a night of clubbing--this Bostonian piece of Americana pie is served up nightly, proudly flashing its red, white and blue patterns over a city obsessed with historic references...
Pleasantville, the first feature from writer/director Gary Ross, is more rooted in television as Americana than in the scary implications of too much technology. It deals with our nostalgia for '50s-sit-com bliss--which, we all realize, never really existed. It is also a graceful, somewhat fragile story, and, with its playful metaphorical mixing of color and black-and-white, it is a visual treat as well...
...return to its film production roots with the re-release of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Perfectly timed to debut at the Silver Anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival--incidentally a festival founded by a film archivist--the restoration effort presumably targets our recent resurgence of interest in Americana by restoring a figure, much maligned in his time, to his much deserved position of authority...
...niche audiences, gays get star treatment: in The Opposite of Sex, Love and Death on Long Island and, by year's end, a dozen more. Just as important is the attitude behind many of the new films. Instead of ghettoizing the gay experience, it integrates it into familiar Americana--gays and straights laughing, loving, misunderstanding one another. As O'Haver says of Kiss, "The idea was to set up these labels of straight and gay, and then by the end of the film forget that Billy is gay. The labels don't really mean that much." That...
Sources: Agence France Presse, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Encyclopedia Americana, Scripps Howard News Service...