Word: darknesse
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However, usually such good intentions to stuff myself full of the canon fizzle with the languid heat of July. After all, it is summer, and who wants to tackle Melville's darkness when it's a balmy 80 degrees out?
The first of the five installations, "Hall of Whispers," is a pitch-black narrow room lined with video monitors showing black and white images of people struggling to speak through bound mouths. Muffled groans surround the viewer in the darkness. The "message" here, at least the one stated by curator...
In the steamy darkness of a summer night on the Persian Gulf, Staff Sergeant Alfredo Guerrero was making the rounds of the observation posts under his command. He stepped onto the roof of one of the apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two...
Solondz' film is not just a nostalgic tribute to suburbs or even geekiness. At times he brings a malevolent darkness to "Dollhouse" which complements well the more mundane perversions of junior high life. Brandon McCarthy (Bredan Sexton Jr), a thug in Dawn's class, shows his affection for the hapless...
Solondz observes all this activity from an objectifying distance, very much the anthropologist trekking through the heart of darkness. He is, perhaps, too relentless in his grimness, too unforgiving. But there is a certain perverse integrity in his depressive's gaze, something weirdly compelling in his refusal to ingratiate himself...