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...diversions include shooting staples off his balcony, tempting the wrath of the eco-friendly in winter by heating his bedding with a 1400-watt blow dryer, decorating with Audrey Hepburn posters (Sepah attributes the obsession to Lee’s “puritanical perceptions of beauty??), and justifying his weather-inappropriate clothing (shorts, sometimes accessorized with a safari hat) to any and all who will listen...
...breakout autobiography “Jarhead.” The novel, written by a Californian and a New York Times bestseller in 2003, should have garnered a little more respect from its native hive, The Sacramento Bee. Enter Sam Mendes, famed director of “American Beauty?? and “Road to Perdition.” Mendes and screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. have produced a vivid, accurate representation of Swofford’s book, which opens this Friday—showing the life of this 18-year-old who joined the Marine Corps and ended...
...unique filmmaking style. Combining elements of montage, documentary, and the avant-garde, she creates subtexts where none previously existed, stories where they may not have been found, and symbols out of everyday occurrences, seeking to give her audiences “pleasure and cognition… wonder, skepticism, beauty?? and more. “In her films,” writes Tom Gunning in his foreword to Child’s book This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics Of Film, “images, sound and words are all treated as plastic matter, open to re-arrangement...
...getting things mysteriously wrong with him. It was very difficult to talk about. But eventually [AIDS] came to touch everybody somehow.”So shaken by the past, Hollinghurst unsurprisingly chose the 80s to inform both the setting and the tone of “The Line of Beauty??. But, he insists, his next project could go anywhere. He doubts a return to poetry – “There’s something more suited about poetry to young people… many, though not all, of the greatest poets have been young poets...
...Adaptation” will find something to like here. As an archetype of a lonely middle aged man, Spritz has both his literary and cinematic forebears: Frank Bascombe in “The Sportswriter”’ and Lester Burnham in “American Beauty??’ both come to mind. Unlike these men, however, whose alienation stems in part from being faceless strangers in the crowd, Spritz is a celebrity. Like any average Joe, he’s constantly screwing up with his kids and wife, but these mistakes are all the more...