Word: detailism
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...1960s Hong Kong. In stumbling upon love when they expected it the least and needed it the most, two young professionals find each other living in the same apartment building and struggling with the same doubts about their spouses. The inspiration for Lost in Translation, this symphony of detail moves slowly and beautifully through the foundations of longing. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street...
Chelsea Toder’s unflinching portrayal of Lisa, the conflicted leading lady caught between husband/leading man (Sean R. Fredricks ’07) and her lover/director (Daniel L. Goodkin ‘06), was passionate and convincing in her attention to detail. However, Fredricks might be awarded the honors of the evening for his versatility and effortless energy. Fredricks’s Matthew was persuasively compassionate, angry, deluded and heartfelt by turns, giving a well-considered performance replete with a depth of emotional complexity...
...didn't put myself only at the top of Olympic preparations, but at the Culture Ministry. I wanted to send a message within the country and abroad that we take this [Olympic] task very seriously, and we will make sure that everything will be prepared on time and in detail. Secondly, I strongly believe that culture and education are the highest investment the Greek people can make. WHEN YOU HELD YOUR FIRST MEETINGS ON THE OLYMPICS, WERE THINGS BETTER OR WORSE THAN EXPECTED? We've been following the course of Olympic preparations very closely from the start, so I didn...
...cultural ascetics who haven’t yet seen it, Gibson’s film deals in images that find striking parallels in the standard news coverage of Ashura. Not one bloody detail escapes the attention of Gibson, who, like the BBC, seems to love nothing more than shredded flesh and the sight of fresh blood streaming down the forehead of a young Middle Eastern man. Based on The Gospel of Mel, Jesus’ torture seems to have been far more important than his actual teachings or moral legacy, two subjects which are hardly treated...
...harmonizes the four gospels into one account, so there’s a stripping away of a lot of the detail,” says Aitken. In addition to the four gospels, Gibson drew upon the writings of a sixteenth century nun who had visions about the Passion gospel. This is problematic, Aitken says, because, “it locates the movie in late medieval Catholic theology...