Word: desertion
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...Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco's Spain, the surrealist master Luis Buñuel, came to Mexico and made a string of startling social melodramas: Los Olvidados, Nazarin, The Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert. Among these giants, Infante stood proud...
...mediocre script and plot, their significant contributions cannot rescue the film. Technically, “First Snow” boasts some shining moments but never achieves originality. Cinematography by Eric Alan Edwards lends an eerie and surreal sense to the film by incorporating images of the sparse New Mexico desert in various states of gloom. While interesting as a stand-alone project, the music by Cliff Martinez clashes with the content of the film. Classical and refined, the score falls short of creating the tense mood that is clearly intended. As both director and screenwriter, Fergus controls several key components...
...want to take a vacation.”“Vacancy” offers some frightening real-life parallels for Wilson. “I’ve done most of my driving around the southwest, all around Texas. It can always get gnarly around there in the desert. It’s pretty desolate,” he says. “There’s this stretch where it says ‘Next gas 73 miles,’ and I always just have the idea that there are just killers out there just driving around...
...over the course of the novel. His friends’ desperate search ends in violence, as Belano and Lima are forced to kill both the past they’re trying to escape and the past they’re seeking. Lost, García Madero disappears into the desert with his lover, left with only their brief lives and the stories they create to fill them in. But when their stories are this good, is that really such a bad thing?—Reviewer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu...
...People.” The bite of UGD is often soft, which may be why Random House sent the book straight to paperback. But the message is always fierce, like the character who tells a woman at a cocktail party of the three possessions he would bring on a desert island—“Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ James Merrill’s Collected Poems, and my lucky Sonic Youth T-shirt”—then actually ends up stranded with those items. Starving and naked...