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Proulx (rhymes with true) is 58, a tough, rooted Vermonter. She dropped out of graduate school years ago and fetched up in a bare cabin in the northern end of the state. She and a friend fished, hunted and foraged to feed themselves. Living that way "makes you very alert and aware of everything around you, from tree branches and wild mushrooms to animal tracks," Proulx says. "It's excellent training for the eye. Most of us stagger around deaf and blind...
...visual ballad, with each painting a stanza: taut, compressed, pared down to the barest requirements of narration. No. 10, They Were Very Poor, takes the elements of a Southern sharecropper's life down to the static minimum: a man and a woman staring at empty bowls on a bare brown plane, an empty basket hung on the wall by an enormous nail -- the sort of nail you imagine in a crucifixion. There isn't a trace of the sentimentality that coats Picasso's Blue Period miserablisme...
...Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what she forbids her husband...
...just wade through the stew of fabric until something catches your eye. Other customers are bent over the musty piles, searching, holding sweaters or blouses at arm's length, occasionally pausing to try one on. There are no dressing rooms, just a couple of mirrors propped up against bare walls. When you have finished your scavenging, you haul your sack to the door, where the man weighs your bulging load. One dollar per pound. The man makes change from a roll of dog-eared singles. No cash register, no receipt. It is a no-nonsense ritual which repeats itself every...
...masterful use of lighting, sound, and setting. This skill is apparent from the movie's beginning--reuniting in 1977, post-Cultural Revolution China, the movie's two main characters, Cheng Dieyi(Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) walk tentatively side by side into the bright light of a bare gymnasium, to be greeted by a single admirer rather than the thousands they once entertained. This make-shift stage, with its single spotlight, bears an eerie resemblance to the interrogation rooms of the Communists, giving the reunion an ominous feel that is heightened by the underlying music. When the flashbacks...