Word: factuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This could have turned out to be an exercise in easy sentiment, easy to shrug off. But Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is carefully understated, and director Michael Winterbottom has achieved a remarkably seamless blend of fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral...
...Watson episode is at least partly factual. Matthiessen excels at writing nonfiction, but he seems uncomfortable inventing the astonishments--the outrageous lies--that keep novels afloat. Perhaps for this reason, he locked his readers away from E.J. Watson and the central drama. He presented his novel as a sheaf of tortuous, conflicting depositions by participants and onlookers that left the truth about the enigmatic Watson untold. Lost Man's River carries the puzzle forward, but in doing so withdraws an additional 50 years from the event. Lucius Watson, one of E.J.'s sons, by now an elderly, self-apologetic historian...
Perhaps it is appropriate to note, in conclusion that Fox did take care to place, at the end of some of the longest titles I have ever seen, a disclaimer announcing that the film was just a huge historical fantasy and should not be taken as factual. But after a fun flick, who cares?Photo courtesy of Robert Speller & SonsSEVEN: The real Anastasia, seated far right...
...pungent report for Vanity Fair. Appearing endlessly on TV, he became an O.J. celebrity himself. Now, trailing even Simpson's niece, Dunne has finally produced his own O.J. book, Another City, Not My Own. Coyly subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, it is an almost entirely factual account of Dunne's experience covering the trial...
Brown's monologue, pivotal, since it relates the dismemberment of Pentheus--which was, wink-wink, the denouement--manages to avoid Joe Friday prosaics. It has of course a blow-by-blow, factual aspect, but Brown illuminates its sorrow and terror...