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...Persuasion" encounters the inevitable fate of a movie based on an Austen novel: It is louder, more simplistic and garish than the original. When Anne and Wentworth kiss on the street in Bath, the whole social code which underlies Austen's world is simply tossed aside in the name of a satisfying climax. But although the film's tone is not perfect, it is close. And the acting, cinematography, even music, are as good as could be hoped for. Go see "Persuasion," but don't forget to stop at the bookstore on the way home...
...that what the Simpson trial amounts to? A strange, garish X ray of American society, circa...
...People who were at first aghast at the idea of mobile trailers are now kind of disappointed that they did not take up the ofter," said first year student David Ascher. "[The trailers] are not as garish as they are portrayed...
Though this film's Van Helsing (lank, loopy Peter Fonda) sleeps inside a grand piano, Nadja is a fairly close reading of the Stoker tale. What distinguishes it is its serenely mannerist glamour. Almereyda shot parts in glorious "Pixelvision"--with a toy camera that gives the most garish images the patina of a dreamscape. Nadja is beyond a midnight movie; it's a late late show for the artistic couch potato...
...culture, talking tough, chewing the furniture), his 27 books have drawn a permanent and distinctive trajectory. His obsessions usually lead back into the continuum of the 1950s and '60s, into the universe of the cold war, of media metastasis and dangerous fame, of glamorous, conspiratorial violence, of the garish existential dreads and lusts (to use the old hyperthyroid Mailer vocabulary) that it has been his gift to conjure...