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...reveals how slight a comedy of manners the first part is. The director’s juxtaposition of actual stock footage of the war—including the bombing of London—against the theater’s musical numbers featuring naked girls highlights the falsity of the film??s recreation of the time...
...Mojave Desert to film “Punishment Park,” his incendiary indictment of the American government’s escalating use of violence against civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and “hippies” of all stripes. Released to almost universal derision, the film??s recent DVD reissue, by Project X and New Yorker Video, endeavors to expose “Punishment” to the large audience it so richly deserves. The film is shot in the style of a documentary, but the events it depicts belong to an imaginary dystopian...
...performance and forces ideological identification. Gaghan wields his camera analytically to showcase the palaces and slums of exotic countries, but never loses sight of the corrupted inhabitants. The developed characters and crisp cinematography are further enhanced by an impressively haunting score. The music boldly deepens the film??s emotional impact without drawing too much attention away from the narrative. More importantly, the score offers a sense of unity in a potentially disorienting film. “Syriana” cannot be labeled as a simple political criticism—this is not “Fahrenheit 9/11...
...Shrek 2,” is unable to carry over the wholesome, multigenerational fun of these films to “Narnia,” giving nothing to the parent dragged to the theatre or the young adult looking to recapture her youth. One can only hope that the film??along with Disney’s marketing blitz of video games, soundtracks, and toys—flops before the filmmakers are encouraged to sully more of the fantastic land of Narnia through further Lewis adaptations. —Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Jack to rodeo riding in Texas and Ennis to his fiancée in Wyoming. Both get married and have children. But the separation becomes unbearable, and they organize regular “fishing trips” on Brokeback to again stoke the fires from that first journey.Yet, the film??s much touted sex scenes are none too graphic; there is minimal nudity and very strategically placed lighting. But even the most innocuous of kisses and embraces shared by the duo go well beyond the average representation of male homosexual behavior in an American film. (At the very...