Word: gorgeousity
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...Maybe so. But to see The Orphanage is to believe in the power of images to evoke emotions. Bayona, working in the old-dark-house genre, is already a master of creepy mood and gorgeous visions. The colors in the house are rich browns, until night falls and a luscious darkness stripes the screen. Bayona sets his camera relentlessly gliding, creeping, tracking toward the eeriest mystery, or backing away from it to reflect our fear. He loves to lead us on treasure hunts and into secret compartments: doors and drawers, which may suddenly burst open or slam shut...
...occasionally graceful sport that is best accompanied by Nino Rota's score for Juliet of the Spirits. But mostly what I discovered is that you are mad about photographing young boys. Gabe Nevins, who plays Alex in Paranoid Park could have posed for Botticelli or Raphael, he's that gorgeous...
...hope for epiphanies; at the closing credits, usually, we shuffle out hoping the next film will be better. But quality is not mandatory here. Each movie, good or bad, is another volume in our continuing, essential film education. And why not go to school in one of the most gorgeous locations in the world...
...instead of, the originals. My two sons (ages 2 and 5) love The Three Pigs, a storybook by David Wiesner in which the pigs escape the big bad wolf by physically fleeing their story (they fold a page into a paper airplane to fly off in). It's a gorgeous, fanciful book. It's also a kind of recursive meta-fiction that I didn't encounter before reading John Barth in college. Someday the kids will read the original tale and wonder why the stupid straw-house pig doesn't just hop onto the next bookshelf. Likewise, Shrek reimagines Puss...
Facebook.com addicts, listen up. Fielding another friend request? Ogling a gorgeous profile? Be careful: though unconfirmed, rumors have been circulating that one undergraduate lost a coveted summer situation due to inappropriate posts on his wall. “I’m not aware of any fellowships selection committees looking at students’ profiles on Facebook, but I suppose it’s certainly possible,” Lowell House Fellowships Committee Chair Joshua D. Goldman wrote in an e-mail. “Anything on Facebook, MySpace.com, personal webpages, etc. is obviously publicly accessible so that others?...