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...films don't make you want to blow up the world, but they don't exactly make you want to live in it, either. Not because built space is inhospitable, but because its decay can be so ugly. And even in dilapidation our spaces tend to outlive us. The footage in both films makes me feel vulnerable, fungible, like attending your own garage sale...
...belatedly awakened passion. Aside from a foolish, deadly duel, that's about all that happens in this handsome, well-acted, richly textured adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's novel. But first-time director Fiennes, the actor's sister, has a sharp eye for the early signs of a society's decay, a cool sympathy for the languid irrelevancy of the 19th century Russian gentry as it murmurs toward prerevolutionary chaos...
Kublai Khan's family rules China. Korea and Mongolia from Dadu (today's Beijing), but related Mongol khanates in central Asia and Russia are virtually independent if not hostile; and the once subservient (and Buddhist) Il-Khans of Persia have converted to Islam. Meanwhile, drawn by the decay of Byzantium, Osman and his Turks germinate the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia...
...Boogie Nights) would like it to be. Indeed, only one of his tales is fully persuasive. That's the one about the Partridge family, which is not to be confused with the nice folks from '70s TV. The patriarch, Earl (Robards), is dying of cancer, a metaphor for decay that Anderson likes too much. Earl's trophy wife (Moore), who married him for his money, has decided she actually loves the old guy and is in a guilty frenzy to prove it. He, meantime, is desperate to reconcile with his estranged son (Cruise), who, under an alias, runs viciously sexist...
...sign discreetly advises, SEPHORA MAKEUP ARTISTS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE FOR COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONS, but the customers prefer to play in the aisles. In this Art Deco universe, all cosmetics are created equal. Witness the beauty behemoth Estee Lauder occupying the same space as stylish newcomers like BeneFit and Urban Decay. And despite the abundance of salespeople in black pantsuits and single black gloves, supervision is minimal. "I know what I'm looking for, so this works for me," says Elisa Lee, 25, of the hands-off approach...