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...common rap on modern world cinema is that it's way too austere. To the untutored eye, seeing Hou's Good Men, Good Women or Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees may indeed be like watching the most beautiful paint dry. But not every movie in the world has to run to the Hollywood pulse; some films can be contemplative and complex. Besides, Americans have also proved indifferent to the vital, popular film industry in India, with its delirious musical melodramas, and in Hong Kong, whose films have enough violent action to put Arnold and Sly out of business. Exoticism...
With audiences hostile to innovation, and in the absence of franchise directors, distributors look for movies that stress heart over art. The three breakout foreign-language hits of the '90s--Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino from Italy and Like Water for Chocolate from Mexico--are nice romantic dramas about love and loss. They were brilliantly promoted by Miramax. But they didn't extend film language as Fellini's or Godard's films did; instead, they gave audiences that warm-puppy feeling. Any Disney movie can do that. So can many of the American independent films that have filled...
...While at first glance these two themes have nothing in common, they describe the two films showing tonight at the Brattle Theatre. It is this meditated oddball variety that makes the Brattle unique; no one could expect the high-minded Harvard Film Archives (HFA) or the corporately operated Kendall Cinema to air “The Future of Food” or “The Roost,” much less back to back. It is for the sake of this quirky individuality, for this independent soul, that the Brattle needs salvation. With falling ticket sales and rising operating...
...drop in audiences after September 11” from which the theater is still recovering, Hinkle said. The Brattle has also been suffering from a 40 percent decrease in ticket sales over the past two years—largely as a result of competition, Hinkle said. The Kendall Square Cinema is a multiplex with similar programming, and Internet-based companies like Netflix and VideoOnDemand.com give viewers one reason fewer to buy a ticket. And, for the Brattle, which acquires many of its reels outside the mainstream, rising prices place another straw on the camel’s back...
...provides even more webspace for an “archive of disturbing illustration.” The graphic content on rotten.com, of accidents, medicine, forensics, and suicides in addition to war, attracts about 15 million hits per day.Another site, camerairaq.com is a project of Carleton College’s Cinema & Media Studies Departments that hosts news and commentary about “the War of Images in the Middle East.” These sites do not incentivize contributors; their content is posted and shared without the promise of pornography. Unique to NTFU is the smut, which seems largely overshadowed...