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...Sheldon K. X. Reid ’96, a current director of Kuumba, In order to further celebrate mariachi this weekend, they will screen “Compañeras” tonight, a documentary about the first all-female mariachi band in the United States, attended by the film??s co-director and producer Elizabeth Massie. It is not just the music but also the musicians that make Mariachi Veritas members so proud of their organization. “Personalities in the group mesh really well,” Yapp says. “It?...
...However, the richness of the world Wong creates prevents Jones’ blandness from detracting too forcefully from the film. Wong draws out the beauty of the commonplace objects we take for granted. In the opening credits, the close-ups on a blueberry pie not only emphasize the film??s title but also show a thoughtful appreciation for the appealing colors and contrasts created by the mixture of berries, crust, and cream. Wong even creates visual appeal in the remains of a car crash, revealing the dead man’s face through a frame of shattered glass...
...that Technicolor obstacle course of cognition. Why? Well, plot development—Gardner needs to have his ‘prodigy’ moment, of course—and because Will Smith likes Rubik’s Cubes. Furthermore, Gardner’s son—five in the film??was only a toddler when he was chasing the office job:no existential questions or heartbreaking dialogue in the real thing, only gurgling...
...breath, Ma might have said to hell with the Asian-American blogs and MIT alumni who wanted to see the charming imperfections of the “true story,” not its glossy but vacuous approximation. Where Ma was an Exeter graduate with big-money ambitions, the film??s “Ben Campbell” is a mathematical genius with a poor widowed mother, desperate to make it to our very own medical school...
...Luckily, as success arrives, so does the lap-dancing affection of Jill, Ben’s once-unattainable crush played by starlet Kate Bosworth. Little by little, it becomes clear that the film??s alterations were, as Ma admitted, less concerned with working out narrative kinks and more intent on sanding inconvenient, unusual reality down to the blanched, manicured trifle that cinemagoers demonstrably know and love...