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...sculpture in the marble quarries of Carrara. By 1906 he was ready for Paris. It was by then the cockpit of modernity, the Paris of Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck. Some of the first canvases in this show are portraits of women painted in Modigliani's earliest style, a gaunt Expressionism bearing all the signs of Edvard Munch and Picasso's by then discarded Blue Period, undertaken with broken brushwork learned from the canvases of Cezanne. It's competent, even sometimes a bit chilling in that entertaining woman-as-vampire mode of Expressionism. All the same, it's derivative...
...Caleb Deschanel (The Black Stallion, The Right Stuff, Gibson's The Patriot), is an attractive clash of eerie blues in the outdoor night scenes, burnished umbers in the trial scenes and blistering whites and yellows on the road to Calvary. The cast, led by James Caviezel as a gaunt, haunted Jesus, is well chosen and smartly directed. The screenplay, by Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald, begins starkly in the Garden of Olives--no loaves and fishes, no wedding feast at Cana--but adds nonbiblical flashbacks to Jesus' idyllic childhood with his beloved mother Mary (powerfully embodied by Maia Morgenstern). It also...
...eagle statue in Pilate's chambers) and special effects (in the earthquake a man grabs at a rock that breaks off and carries him to a crashing death) take a back seat to the hallowed story and processional pace. H.B. Warner's Jesus is in the gaunt El Greco mode; the scenes are essentially brisk illustrations of the Gospels. Nearly all the dialogue and narrative intertitles are from the Gospels. The exceptions: a few that mitigate supposed Jewish guilt for Jesus' death. Magdalene: "The High Priest speaketh not for the people." And a Pharisee, at the end: "Lord God Jehovah...
...surprisingly gaunt face stared up from coffee tables across the nation this August after the New York Times plastered a close-up across the cover of its magazine...
...checkpoint in the West Bank. Hopes for a cease-fire also faded when Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, sworn in on Tuesday, threatened to quit on Thursday over differences with Yasser Arafat on the control of Palestinian security forces. Arafat's own survival came into question when his gaunt appearance sparked health concerns. A source in his Ramallah compound told Time he may in fact be suffering from stomach cancer. If more Israeli attacks in Syria do come, no one will be surprised. Israel has already killed or arrested all the Islamic Jihad and Hamas kingpins in the West Bank...