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...world watches Day-Lewis. And with good reason. At 36, he is arguably the most accomplished film actor of his generation: handsome and wily, fierce and delicate, bold enough to submerge himself in a role, strong enough for his charismatic intelligence to shine through. He knows the camera is anX ray, a polygraph, searching his face for hints of lies and evasion. He had better not just act his character but also be it. That is Day-Lewis' goal and gift: to be so true to his characters that they need never be sentimentalized, made to seem finer, grander, wickeder...
...United States in 1962, it was banned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, making it a sin for any Catholic to go see it. However, moral considerations are no longer what make "Jules and Jim" so powerful. Instead, Truffaut's unquestionable artistry, the nakedness of the emotions his camera captured, the outstanding performances by the three leads, and the air of melancholy wisdom about life combine to make a viewing of "Jules and Jim" a joyous, painful and exhilarating artistic experience...
Truffaut makes clear that the war brought to an end the world that Jules, Jim and Catherine knew. All at once, the radiance and airiness of the film's first half make sense. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard's camera captures inhumanly beautiful scenes. The screen is so luminous that at times one is almost blinded by it. Coutard has a feel for the way that summer shirts and the use of a hand-held camera accentuates the kinetic quality of bohemian life. Suddenly, the sunlit beauty of the movie's first section seems elegiac; the world the film portrays...
...added is a dose of '90s new age spiritualism, the sexy Greek presence of Yanni and a sky full of stars. Yanni Live at the Acropolis provides all three of these elements: the starry Greek night, 48-track digital recording and for those laser disc connoisseurs, 14 camera angles worth of Yanni's flowing dark locks, sensuous mustache and penetrating eyes. Yanni could be Samson with his mane, Jesus with his prophetic utterances or that mysterious European stranger who woos single female travelers, only to turn out to be a con man. What he actually is simple: a sex symbol...
...point in "The Ref," wife/mom Caroline (Judy Davis) has her entire family wear Scandinavian candle-wreaths on their heads. When the camera pans around the dining room table allowing viewers a glimpse of each family member with a candle-wreath on his or her head, the audience erupts in laughter. Overheard by this reporter in the bathroom after the movie: "I thought I was gonna die when they had those candles on their heads...