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...with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is about as close as you could come lately, and they kept trying to kill each other. Maybe wedded happiness is considered static, undramatic, a minuet of compromises. It could also be that depicting the satisfaction of people over 30 just doesn't appeal to the audience demographic; the young may think that anyone who's settled for living with someone else is either miserable or deserves to be. Whatever the reason, connubial bliss in pictures doesn't hold a candle to connubial blisters. The only movie marriages to hold our interest...
...stands next a print of cheap ceiling lights. “Fridge” shows us something we see every day, and “Light” something we would see every day, if we only looked up. The exhibition’s titular photograph shares a similar appeal. In “Long Life Cool White” the subjects are two oblong fluorescent bulbs hanging from a room’s ceiling on metal chains. Only the lights and the strings that turn them on are in focus; the workroom in the background is secondary...
...movie elements with any cohesion or creativity. “The Bank Job” seems to have all the ingredients for an enjoyable viewing experience. Bank robbery? Check. Organized crime figures? No doubt. Government conspiracy? Uh-huh. Surely large audiences will flock to the theater based on this appeal alone, but they shouldn’t. “The Bank Job” features a series of characters who at first seem completely unconnected but are gradually drawn together by the incongruous plot, which combines a bank robbery with a government cover-up. There’s Terry...
Despite my natural mistrust of any documentary where the heroes and villains are so clearly defined, I couldn’t deny the appeal of “The Unforeseen.” The documentary recounts the debate over Barton Springs, a spring-fed swimming hole in Austin, Tex. As lobbyists and environmentalists argue in and out of court over plans to build housing developments—a plan that would pollute the natural treasure—what was once a local issue becomes a deeper question of private property rights and the good of the community.In the 1970s, Austin...
...government reprisal, said anyone who thought Ortega's reelection would mark a return of revolution is "freeze-dried in the 1980s." The Ortega of today, she said, represents the same economic and business interests as the conservative right, only with a "schizophrenic discourse" that tries to tap the revolutionary appeal of the past...