Word: circularity
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Pennypackers' central circular staircase is agreat place for congregating. And people do. "ThePack's" bright landing are full of people at allhours, and a four story beer funnel makes anappearance on its open stairwell once a year orso. Pennypacker's rooms are not massive, but theirquirky shapes offer a change of pace from thestandard Yard dorms...
...each hangs what appears to be the flayed carcass of a deer or a wolf. (They are, in fact, hard plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more than the merest ghost of pathos--but you shudder at the gratuitousness of their posthumous torment. It's like a brief glimpse of animal hell, going...
Through Oct. 8. "The Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan." Traces the evolution of the fan in East Asia, from the circular "lollipop" fan to the better-known folding fan that was produced throughout East Asia from the thirteenth century onward...
...sound effects. Ward's occasional temper tantrums rely on loudness without exploring his internal trauma. The characters' stamina leads them to practically throw themselves into ritualistic scenes, only to emerge later, dazed and confused. In describing his plans, Ward sketches frenetically on the stage's back wall. Again, the circular motions of his spotlit hand are hypnotic. Despite over-highlighted props and a physicality that overwhelms the acting, "The Remnant" whips up genuine suspense because the characters are fearless in the face of death. Moreover, Johnson saves the goriest scenes for last...
...this sounds too catchy, it may be. In order to maintain the film's circular structure Manchevski takes liberties with common sense. (At one point photographs are taken by a man who we later discover is already dead.) This dedication to structure undermines other aspects of the film as well. We are never allowed to become attached to one character, lest his story line stray too far from the rain. Just as we get to enjoy the company of this fascinating young monk we are pushed back to the beginning of the film. The viewer will not be immune...