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...Gist:Of all of the assorted manners of creative expression - cinema, literature, dance, theater, music, architecture - visual art is the most inscrutable. It is swaddled in layers of pretension, seemingly produced, discussed, and traded by a rare, elite few. Yet, as Thornton argues, more people seem to be buying and consuming art than ever before. Structured as a series of seven day-long dips into the community's various subcultures, Thornton's book explores (among other things) the floating jealousies at a high-end auction, the exhausting, freewheeling process of an art school critique session, and the machinations behind...
...silent world” of pictures. But among all assortments of existing images, Tan appreciates the occasional lucky occurrence when shooting a film. She explained how Dutch filmmakers refer to such a moment as a “cadeau,” or present. “Cinema,” she said, “is a way of collecting presents...
...shores. "It's genius," says Michael Gubbins, editor of Screen International, a London-based industry magazine, of Disney's HSM marketing strategy. "They've understood that TV is a way to get into people's heads, and that the Internet is a way to enrich that, and that cinema is a place to add to that excitement. It shows exactly the way franchises are going to be built in the future...
From Lassie and Trigger to Gentle Ben and Babe The Talking Pig, the true-life stories of cinema's animal stars are seldom told. Fewer still get to tell the tale themselves. So a frisson of disappointment ran through London's literary circles last week when it was revealed that Me Cheeta,, the just-published memoirs of the chimpanzee who starred in 11 Tarzan movies from 1934 to 1948, is actually the work of a ghostwriter, James Lever. Even before the "autobiography" appeared to a string of rave reviews, expectations for Me Cheeta, had been primed when it was longlisted...
...government. In films like “Breathless” and “My Life To Live,” the protagonists are young, bored, and otherwise desensitized by a culture supersaturated with highly stylized images of luxury and glamour. Godard explores this self-referential obsession with American cinema and culture, while simultaneously parodying it—several of these protagonists meet with violent, seemingly absurd, ends.Today’s popular cinema seems to view Godard’s work with a mixture of voyeurism and cultural amnesia. His early films have the power to disorient, confuse, shock...