Word: finks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secondary characters, primarily the parents of both girls, are flat eccentrics, reminiscent of Joel and Ethan Coen creations in "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink." The pansy college professor, the dissatisfied society wife, and others alternately plague their difficult daughters and provide a fairy-tale-gone-wrong background--Pauline's parents, it turns out, were never married, and Juliet's parents are getting a divorce. Pauline's mother, designated victim, is less easy to write off, and it is precisely her authenticity which makes the eventual crime so terrible...
...Trier will never be nailed on that rap. He passionately promotes himself and European movies. At last year's Cannes festival, when this film lost out to the Hollywood comedy Barton Fink, Von Trier threw a snit fit, angrily claiming that his movie was bolder and better. He was right. Zentropa plunders the film vocabulary -- back projection and superimposition, black-and-white with shrieks of color -- to anchor its weirdness in classical technique. The legerdemain reminds you of the artificial nature of movies even as it draws you back to the era when pictures seduced the audience into a communal...
...Barton Fink...
...Fink said in her ruling Tseng's remarkswere in relation to earlier research he performedat Johns Hopkins and did not "in any way"misrepresent the results of the study he conductedas a Harvard fellow...
...Fink said that no evidence suggested thatKenyon "conducted himself in an unethical orfraudulent manner" as the study's principalinvestigator...