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...This one's easy to get to--it's right next to HMV in Brattle Square. But getting a seat can still be a struggle. Imagine an audience full of over-achiever grad students whose hauteness depends on seeing Now Voyager one last time. Kendall Square Cinema Hip art flicks, an espresso bar, and faux-art-deco interior make this the most chichi theater in town. After getting off at the Kendall-MIT stop, you have to cut through the Marriot, negotiate a deathly intersection, cross train tracks, and trudge through the dubious and probably health-threatening wastelands and parking...
...drama of weather back then was all in the anticipation. Today it's one climax after another. In the proliferating genre of severe-weather videos and TV specials, nature in extremis provides the voyeuristic thrill of an environmental porno flick. Houses pummeled by hurricane-force winds tumble into the sea. People run screaming from rooms rocked by earthquakes. And in video shot by professional storm chasers and plucky amateurs, funnel clouds whirl forebodingly, kick up a storm of debris and move menacingly closer. Sometimes too close. In one oft-seen clip, a family scrambles for shelter as a tornado bears...
...APPEALING THING ABOUT CHANNEL SURFING IS THAT anyone can become a satirist with the mere flick of a wrist. For instance, last Thursday morning you could have watched President Clinton, live on cnn from the White House, as he flattered the assembled heads of the American television industry for recognizing that "their creativity and their freedom carries with it [sic] significant responsibility." What with V chips and elections looming, politicians and moguls were all doing their best to appear high-minded. But--in New York City, at any rate--you could have quickly subverted the mood by flipping over...
According to Scorsese, the key sequence in the film occurs as Travis makes a pitiful phone call to Betsy after the disastrous outing to the porn flick. The camera pans away from Travis on the phone to a shot of an empty hallway, even as he continues his largely one-sided conversation off-camera. At this point, it is as if even the subjective eye of the camera can no longer bear to watch such a pathetic scene. The harsh whiteness of the hallway's fluorescent lighting reflects the emptiness of Travis's monotonous life...
...Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would lick Dean's face; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy--a bizarre comic display of love and resentment. No way it could last...