Word: brides
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Based on Antonia Fraser's biography of the Austrian princess who became the bride of Louis XVI, and the last, unlucky Queen of France, Marie Antoinette might have been one of those films that some liked, some didn't. But at the end of the movie's first screening a few critics expressed their displeasure with a smattering of boos, which Variety, the preeminent showbiz trade publication, strangely cited as being "Gallic-accented...
...grace and strength italicized by being filmed in slow motion. All this to Antony and the Johnsons' "My Lady Story," a dreamy-sounding, gentle massage of a ballad with scalpel-sharp lyrics ("My lady's story / Is one of annihilation... / I'm a hole in love / I'm a bride on fire / I am twisted / Into a starve of wire...
...steal or try to destroy it. The other characters, especially Rosalba and Gino, are not mere stooges for Geremia; they are by turns victims and connivers, whom Geremia inadvertently inspires to dip into his book of tricks. By the climax, Geremia is "a hole in love," Rosalba "a bride on fire...
Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar ought to be the break-out hit for First Second. If the filmmakers Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach) and Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) ever teamed up on a graphic novel, it might well resemble this funny take on the complex love life of a sensitive vampire ("I bite with one tooth so that it looks like a mosquito bite") and his friends. Sfar imagines a world being shared with our own, but made up of ghosts, monsters and witches who do things like rent cruise ships so they can be with their...
...shipyard park, which like the campus was honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, has quickly become a local landmark. On a recent weekday afternoon, the park was full. Toddlers climbed happily over pebbled railroad tracks, men played chess on a platform surrounded by tall reeds, a bride posed for a portrait amid some (deliberately) unraked leaves, and two vanloads of officials on a study tour listened to a guide talk about environmental protection...