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...manically neighborly as a Sesame Street extra. “Hello!” you want to cry to children being trundled past in strollers. Thoughtful merchandisers have adjusted window displays to your eye level; would-be Byrons nursing cups of coffee behind coffee shops’ plate-glass windows brood up at you. You hear bizarre, beautiful snatches of conversation. You receive unsolicited advice intended for other people. Sometimes you exchange smiles with strangers. If you take a walk now, you can find signs spring is coming: snowdrops, the firm green tips of daffodils poking through the snow...
...twentieth century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startlingly surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision of McNamara as a man whose regret has opened floodgates of wisdom (upon hearing one of the admonitions apparently directed at the current administration, an audience member actually began clapping...
...Hundred Years War, and his flourishing city attracted artists and artisans from all across Europe, notably Italy, Flanders and Germany. Prefiguring Renaissance humanism, their themes were not only religious but also the ideals of chivalry and courtly love, and their handiwork included painting, sculpture, manuscript illuminations, enamels, tapestries, stained glass, embroidery and jewelry. Sometime in the late 18th century, it seems, artists began to alter their collective self-image. They stopped considering themselves as Renaissance men and started to strike outsider poses as bohemians - and even buffoons, jesters, jugglers, acrobats and clowns. At least, that's the premise...
...twentieth century. This documentary shows the making of war through his eyes, from the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War. The documentary, directed by genre master Errol Morris (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) utilizes frank White House tapes, startlingly surreal images, and an extraordinary Philip Glass score to engross an audience that may otherwise have little interest in the subject matter. Morris never compromises his vision of McNamara as a man whose regret has opened floodgates of wisdom (upon hearing one of the admonitions apparently directed at the current administration, an audience member actually began clapping...
...barely touches on what Jesus did or why he mattered. In assuming that viewers already know the smaller details of Jesus’ life and martyrdom, The Passion preaches only to the choir, whose members may wonder why the sermon is so light on content and so fixated on glass-studded whips...