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...bongos and flutes from a lighthearted Caribbean tune invade the decrepit room. At this point, the last (or maybe first) thing you’d expect is the blind to break out singing as if in a seeing-impaired musical. But something similar, and potentially worse, happens: they all begin to whistle along. This ironically cheerful moment is abruptly severed, as the various wards form mock governments. The self-proclaimed “King of the Third Ward,” played by Gael Garcia Bernal, claims that he will only distribute food in exchange for women. In ridiculously cheesy...
...important tonal and thematic element has already led some critics to call “Ballast” one of the best debut features in years. Hammer was given the award for Best Director at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film, which will begin a theatrical run at the Kendall Square Cinema on October 17, revolves around the impact that a man’s suicide has on his twin brother, ex-lover, and young son. Utilizing three nonprofessional, local actors to portray the principal characters lends the film a sense of weight and realism...
...here are personal. Walls speak to the students and—better yet—the students use them to speak to one another.“The building was to reflect the occupants,” explains Hartman. “The people that pass through it would begin to claim the building in a way.”Inside the laboratories, attention to the needs of the scientists and students prevails. D. Allan Drummond, a Bauer Fellow working in the building, says, “The new lab space is gorgeous.”Drummond explains that...
...utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken by one survivor: “I am not complete in the mind.” By its end, the same can be said about the narrator, a paranoid alcoholic who loves sex and despises the Catholic Church, a curiously obsessive, self-absorbed man whose overactive mind...
...hard-won, and it may not last. California, and in particular San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, have been fighting for gay marriage since 2004, when Newsom ordered the county clerk to begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples. Martin and Lyon were the first married then, as well, but their marriage was invalidated along with 3,954 others when the state Supreme Court ruled that Newsom had overstepped his authority in ordering the licenses issued. Now, a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage comes up for a vote in November. Women are walking down the aisle together...