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...through their ideas, none of these thinkers are about to make a philosophical break-through. Ronell tells a helpful anecdote about Heidegger’s abandonment of what he believed to be institutionalized philosophy in favor of simply thinking. Indeed, Taylor’s film presents nothing like a close reading of “Being and Time,” but it does rouse its viewers to consider various takes on what it might mean to be alive today.Walking down 5th Avenue in New York City, Princeton’s Peter Singer asks, “Can we make...
...politics prize inclusivity; Butler’s music has attracted the masses, but there’s a curious isolationism in not wanting to live in America no more.The pretensions of “Miroir Noir” do their best to keep populism at bay. Close-ups on a shaking door knob, bird’s-eye-views of street-level passersby, overblown anonymous calls (“I believe in myself, I believe in the cause, and I believe in the effect. I do believe.”)—they all make Morisset?...
...main character: bipolar, aimless, and shameless. “Observe and Report” fails to make up its mind as to where it should place its focus, zigzagging between characters and events. As a result, the movie seems a little disjointed at times, pausing on extreme high-angle close ups of Ronnie’s face as he contemplates his life, before moving to hand-held shots that follow him as he runs after terrified skateboarders in the parking lot. “Observe and Report” attempts to squeeze in a few moments of genuine warmth into...
...things to do with perceptions of people—how negative perceptions or stereotypes can lead to horrible things,” Ayers says. “That kind of issue should not be visited on a superficial level.”The Adams Pool Theatre creates a close environment in which to relate people’s personal stories in a deep and effective way. Using spotlights to focus on the character who is speaking at the time, “The Exonerated” is performed simply yet profoundly in this antiqutated theater that the staff decided would...
...When We Were Alive” shakes with the same bracing fury—noisy riffs that fall like axe blows over gleefully deranged vocals—of earlier releases. “How We Fade” glimpses at those heights as it surges to a close, and in its valleys it remains a passably pretty stab at punk balladry. The album closer, “You Dissolve,” finds the band remembering how to be mindless without being mind-numbing, which is more than can be said for the likes of “Liquid...