Word: cooler
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...never just the present-day array of marketable postures, most announcing an ironclad cool. But what is it exactly? For some interesting answers, turn to John Leland's Hip: The History (Ecco; 405 pages), a book that examines how an underground language of American slaves became the lingua francafor cooler-than-thou folk everywhere, in the process evolving from hard-earned mentality to merest merchandise option...
...filmed by Hitchcock, the film dexterously dances across four time periods and leaves the viewer to determine whether any one scene is reality, memory, fantasy or movies. One thing, however, is certain: nobody makes movies with the brio and gravity of Almodóvar's. Bad Education is a cooler film than the director's two recent masterpieces, All About My Mother and Talk to Her, but it's one magnificent melodrama...
...Industrial Revolution, was a cumbersome machine from the start and remained so for a century. To a generation that got its visual schooling in front of the small, teeming screens of PCs and PlayStation 2s, the old filmic quest to make movies seem like real life, only cooler, is as anachronistic as a telegram in the e-mail age. Now a generation of directors is moving from analog to digital. They want to make films that hit the delete button on reality--films whose highest aspiration is to be cartoons...
...dresses like a still curly-haired Chelsea Clinton, leaves the next morning for a Berkeley-esque college, where she realizes quickly her dream of normalcy—which entails, in her immortal words, “cruising around in a Volkswagen Beetle with a cooler in the passenger seat holding a bologna sandwich and a beerâ€â€” will be hard to achieve...
...TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL HAS BECOME THE UNOFFICIAL OPENING FOR OSCAR SEASON. LAST YEAR Lost in Translation, The Cooler and 21 Grams used TIFF as their first shot at an Academy close-up. This year's fest, which ended Saturday, had a rich crop of performances you'll hear about in February. Here's a rundown of contenders...