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...narrowed his focus from that film's gang of five to a two-hander in Apt Pupil, from a Stephen King story. The other three directors have bought a big canvas (at a cut rate) and splashed strange people on it till it's as busy as a Bruegel. Solondz has a dozen major characters trudging through Happiness. Stanley Tucci, the co-writer, co-director and star of everyone's favorite Italian-food film, Big Night, has created a shipful of fools in his farce The Impostors. Todd Haynes, known for his furtive, paranoid parables Poison and Safe, goes wide...
...people in the building. Other rooms were sweltering while the pavilion floor holding the Irises was simply shut off and regulated. The Getty seemed also to suffer for its newness as well as its popularity; one docent told me to "look around" and see if I could find any Bruegel paintings and then come tell...
Everybody knows that country is the last lair of sophisticated songwriting: character sketches, Ozark melodramas and, for the female singers, three-minute nervous breakdowns. Berg, 34, works expertly in all these genres and, like a backwoods Bruegel, portrays solitary figures going down in flames in teeming small-town landscapes. She peoples her sorority with the hopeful (Along for the Ride), the horny (Back in the Saddle--just try not to sing along) and a fine assortment of wistful waitresses. They commandeer the later songs on the album (Good Ol' Girl, If I Were an Angel, The Resurrection), toying with desperation...
...Rembrandt's dark pastoral background. It is bathed in smeary light, and its main feature is a chimney from which a plume of black smoke rises-a burned offering-toward a cross on the hill. Then one realizes that Podro, the "Jewish rider," like St. Anthony in a Bruegel, is dreaming monstrosity: riding in memory through the landscape of the Polish Holocaust...
Boyd's sense of art as a kind of tribal wisdom, an inheritance ceaselessly modified, extended into his dealings with the larger tradition that geography prevented him from joining. He knew the Old Masters only at second hand: reproductions of Bruegel and Bosch, Rembrandt and Tintoretto in the Melbourne Public Library, and in the National Gallery of Victoria some of William Blake's original watercolor illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. All this predisposed him to narrative. Sometimes the stories in his paintings are explicit -- illustrations of the Bible, for instance, into which Boyd (like Blake) injected his own obsessions...