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...mere government functionary? Or a willful sinner whose well-paid job trades in the blood of the blameless? The film is vintage Adoor, a picture-perfect set piece that entertains eternal questions of human responsibility and freedom. (Shadow Kill "has the stamp of a master," according to film critic Chidananda Dasgupta.) The film is more beautifully shot than the rest of Adoor's oeuvre combined...
...Leica cameras for a couple of assignments - his 1994 portrait of France's beloved priest of the poor Abbé Pierre is in the retrospective - but he essentially retired from his peripatetic photographic career nearly 30 years ago. He stopped, he said, when a longtime mentor, the Greek-born critic and art publisher Teriade, told him that he had gone as far as he could go in photography, and he agreed: "I knew I had nothing more to say. I felt it." Since then, he has devoted his time to painting and drawing, working on life-model nudes...
...LUCK TOMORROW. Justin Lin’s complex, exhilarating breakthrough film features an all Asian-American cast and packs some real punch. Four high school overachievers inevitably bound for prestigious Ivy League universities turn to cheating, drugs and crime to escape the terrible ennui of their privileged suburban lives. Critic Roger Ebert stood up on a chair at the Sundance Film Festival to defend Lin’s portrayal of Asian-Americans. See full story in the April 11 issue. Better Luck Tomorrow screens...
Witness yet another “Next Big Thing” in full effect. What makes electroclash so critic-friendly is that the movement has more than enough self-sufficiency and panache to look and sound great on paper. It’s a generation of producers wielding analog synths and rubbing shoulders with kinky vocalists, reconfiguring rock music’s lost sex appeal under the icy auspices of Eighties new wave—only remade for the 21st century...
...Crimson Arts visual arts critic Sandra E. Pullman be reached at pullman@fas.harvard.edu...