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...mysteries that riddle their lives. David Lynch should have won the Oscar for his evocative vision of a treacherously seductive Hollywood, where amidst the magazine-gloss sheen, two people who seek moral truths are engulfed in the process. Lynch concocts an enveloping sense of foreboding, lingering his camera even as the characters have moved well beyond the scope of the frame. The film’s emotional weight seems almost secondary to unraveling its Mobius strip plot, but repeated viewings uncover a tremendous gravitas in Naomi Watt’s alternately enchanting and harrowing performance. Tickets $7.50. 7 p.m. Brattle...
This being TV, the Holy Grail for several of these shows is working in front of a camera. ESPN's Dream Job (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), in a masterstroke of self-promotion, has communications students, lawyers and comedians audition to become ... an ESPN SportsCenter host. (This is the first reality show in which the ultimate praise is, "You made bowling fun.") It's surprisingly entertaining to watch pressure-stoked Dan-Patricks-in-training wrestle with TelePrompTers and try to coin catchphrases. It's also profoundly sad. Remember when a fan's fantasy job would have been playing a sport...
...elbow deep in cleanser, and don't you forget it. At the end of one episode, a California Pizza Kitchen host asks company co-founder Larry Flax, "So when do I get to do your job?" "That's next week," Flax says. They laugh and laugh. Then the camera shuts off. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. In one remarkable shot, the camera takes an overhead God’s-eye view of the crucifixion site, underpinning the magnitude of the event by exhibiting the individuals’ relative irrelevance. Furthermore, every aspect of the persecution becomes a multi-sensory experience, as each lashing is accompanied by a vivid shower of crimson and unnerving sound effects. At one point, a Roman soldier flagellates Christ with a whip of broken metal tips, the shards embedded and then...
Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. In one remarkable shot, the camera takes an overhead God’s-eye view of the crucifixion site, underpinning the magnitude of the event by exhibiting the individuals’ relative irrelevance. Furthermore, every aspect of the persecution becomes a multi-sensory experience, as each lashing is accompanied by a vivid shower of crimson and unnerving sound effects. At one point, a Roman soldier flagellates Christ with a whip of broken metal tips, the shards embedded and then...