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...capable hands, the confrontation between Frost and Nixon is choreographed not like an interview but as an almost medieval clash of titans.Instead of the ominous pounding of armored feet on earth, we witness the purposeful pacing of black shoes on pavement. In place of dark steeds carrying villains, we have the jet-black limousines of the presidential motorcade. The generals in this war of words are researchers for Frost and staffers, headed Kevin Bacon as Jack Brennan, for Nixon.At the same time, true to its original stage play format, “Frost/Nixon” is a film driven...
...first film shown, was a montage of clipped, obscured, and often beautiful passages ranging in focus from anonymous people in transit to flowers and vegetation. More frequently than not, it was unclear exactly what the objects were—whether because the shot was too tight, too dark, or simply with too foreign a subject—leaving the viewer with little more than free-associative and mnemonic inference. But this is all part of Dorsky’s vision. “The whole idea is to set up tension that you as the viewer synapse the completion...
...film veers wildly off track in its second hour. Writers Jody Savin and Randall Miller abandon any sense of character motivation or narrative structure, opting instead to turn the film into a frenetic, confusing revenge play. While “Nobel Son” may be intended as a dark comedy, its casual depictions of sadism and brutality quickly become tiresome. The man attacked in the opening sequence reappears later on, and his traumatic experience is essentially played for laughs. A minor character is also viciously murdered midway through the film, and his death is characterized as little more than...
...metallic-sheen suit strolls slowly down an aisle with a dark-haired woman in fur on his arm. They stop occasionally to examine one of the many Persian carpets arrayed on a wall the length of a tennis court. Against the black cloth of the exhibition hall's walls, the brightly colored handmade silk carpets - in vibrant blues and greens, luscious reds and purples - almost leap off the backdrop...