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...WISH IT WERE A MORE dramatic story..." So begins Professor of History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in describing the discovery of the diary that led to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. On the contrary, her fifteen-year journey from the discovery of eighteenth-century midwife Martha Ballard's diary to the Boston premiere of Laurie Kahn-Leavitt's film production of her story, is a tale in itself...
...very good things about Fly Away Home are the restrained naturalism of its playing; its gentle, unforced direction by Carroll Ballard; and above all its imagery, shot by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, of Amy, Tom and the birds in flight. At once comic and soaring, artful and artless, these scenes lift us from earthbound disbelief and charm our acquiescence in the sweetest of adventures...
...inhabits a baffling and in many ways terrifying present in 1996. Science fiction is always about the year in which it is written. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a McCarthyite fantasy. Today, I think, the alien is inside, a virus of one kind or another." He cites J.G. Ballard's remark: "The only truly alien planet is Earth...
...Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash, the festival's mandatory annual outrage. This terminally creepy movie, from the J.G. Ballard novel about people who get sexual thrills from car carnage, could have been a moving meditation on auto-eroticism. The kinks are there but the pace is lethargic, as if the film were moving on Detroit's pokiest assembly line...
Oops! After the Alanis Morissette song You Oughta Know won a Grammy, the Mississippi house of representatives passed a resolution honoring the native son who wrote it, Glen Ballard. Then lawmakers read the lyrics. Shortly after they came across the F word, they rescinded the honor...