Word: backgrounder
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...movie gets bustling straight off; those two scenes are dramatized (nicely) and dispensed with in 15-20 minutes. The movie is dense - every millimeter of screen space is art-directed up the wazoo - but not congested, Terry Gilliam-style. Each of the thousand elements knows its place: in the background, ceding eye-focus to the story and its increasingly plausible and compelling characters...
Friday, Nov. 18Wu Man and Ensemble. Wu Man, a virtuoso pipe player, performs Chen Yi’s spellbinding opus “Ancient Dances” with his lute-like instrument accompanied by percussionists. Images of ancient Chinese calligraphy will be projected in the background, creating a multimedia event. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $38/28/23/20. (KAF)Scissorfight. Boston-based punk rockers Scissorfight, whose vocalist, Ironlung, once dislocated his shoulder in the middle of a show and spent the remainder of said show attempting to punch it back into place, team...
...force a student audience to pay attention to the new words and foreign concepts. While some of the theological ideas in which Saul instructs his students and daughter add an interesting philosophical dimension to the movie, the directors and screenwriters spend too much time establishing the complicated religious background, hindering the audience’s appreciation of the narrative. Trying to weave both character development and philosophical discussion may have worked in Goldberg’s novel, but falls apart in the film adaptation. The central theme of the movie, of insignificant parts coming together to form a whole...
...festival, which began as an academic event featuring Irish films produced since the 1920s, while at Amherst College. It included panels and guest speakers, but at the end of the day, most of the people who attended were Irish-Americans interested in seeing movies from their own cultural background. The special program was so successful that despite what Flynn refers to as “the whole nightmare that it was” they decided to make it an annual event...
...each frame on huge, eight-by-ten-inch sheets of film) into the wilderness.The resulting images have defined Ansel Adams and the American West. There’s the captivating “Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, 1944,” with an imposing white mountain range in the background and a foreground shrouded in uneven shadow as the sun sets. There’s the photographer’s most famous image, “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941,” in which he does what a photography teacher would almost certainly advise against, leaving the entire...