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...play bears some resemblance to Far and Away (which starred those Irish favorites Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman), but Jones insists she isn't skewering any single movie or star but simply trying to show what happens "when the wagon rolls in, with all the glitz and glamour, and two cultures that are poles apart coexist for six weeks...
...skyscrapers looked like portents of a magnificent new world in the making. The essential task for many artists then was to align themselves with the dynamic forces of that world, to heap up raptures to horsepower and the Brooklyn Bridge. Cyberspace and digital technology have some of the same glamour and promise, but the romance of technology has long since wilted. After two world wars and Three Mile Island, who can take seriously the militant modernity of the Italian Futurists or the Russian Constructivists? What artists want now is to use new technologies without falling for them...
Hideki Hattori is 23 years old, out of college and starting on his own at the worst possible time. He is wearing a navy-blue porkpie hat pulled down to his eyebrows, a plaid shirt by a niche fashion house called Hysteric Glamour, baggy pants, a chain of oversize dice hanging from his waist and silver rings on his fingers. Being a deejay would be kind of cool, he says, but he likes graphic design too. And then he met this salesman who tried to import beetles from Indonesia, and that sounded promising?except all the beetles died while waiting...
...anti-romantics of the Sixth Generation renounce glamour. They eschew the star quality that marks Hollywood and Hong Kong; indeed, they often do without professional actors. Their films look less like paintings than placards. No stately settings, no echoes of the fine arts, no images that pop your eyes in wonder. The very notion of masterpiece-making seems dilettantish to the rebels of the sixth form. Here are film kids in revolt?against the government, of course, but also against their sanctified big brothers. Speaking of the Fifth Generation, Zhang Yuan has said, "They had a slogan: 'Not like...
With its lack of glamour, muddy backdrop and plain-clothes nature, Boesman and Lena, the final film of the late John Berry, is not going to be a huge box-office hit. However, its sheer simplicity, truthfulness and humanity will draw dedicated and attentive viewers with its burst of reality, thus making Boesman and Lena the perfect film to open the Harvard Black Arts Film Festival...