Word: amnesiacs
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...martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past - a tale of an amnesiac among the unemployed and one of the deadpan Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. The film's leading lady, Kati Outinen, took Best Actress. Olivier Gourmet was named Best Actor for his role in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes' The Son, a touching drama about a troubled...
...trendy “glitch” sound suffers from being too dry and insular to be a truly revolutionary movement, only reaching wider audiences through compelling intermediaries like Björk on Vespertine and Radiohead on Amnesiac. But out of a booming sound system, it sounds utterly compelling, despite being almost impossible to dance to. In the context of the Middle East, the skittering clicks n’ cuts more resembled microbes than beats, a forest of chirruping digital bugs clambering out of vinyl hell and into one’s headspace. Best of all, no two records sounded...
...there's no place like moan for the holidays. That's now the tradition for year-end movies, and this year the season of official good feeling is refracted in Oscar-envious films about troubled folks. A schizophrenic mathematician, a slow-witted father, an amnesiac writer, a disfigured playboy, unhappy families in Manhattan and on an English estate--all these sad souls threaten to turn the holiday film scene into a Yuletide reunion at Bellevue. But wait. Most of these tales are ultimately journeys to spiritual health. And if you need a dose of old-movie magic--reach...
...butters the Capra-corn with another '40s touchstone: Preston Sturges' Hail the Conquering Hero, about a 4-F fellow mistaken as a war hero when he returns home. Here the unwilling impostor is a screenwriter (Carrey) who escapes Hollywood when he's marked for blacklisting and ends up an amnesiac in a town claiming him as its own. Suddenly he's got a father (Landau), a girlfriend (Holden) and the burden of greatness...
...Like Spinning Plates,” one of the more opaque and curtailed tracks on Amnesiac is here resurrected as a stuttering, swirling piano ballad, with what may be digs at critics concealed in its newly comprehensible lyrics: “While you make pretty speeches / I’m being cut to shreds / You feed me to the lions...