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This is the mood in Solaris, Mirror and the other sanctuaries erected over the past quarter-century by Andrei Tarkovsky. The pleasures these films admit are rarefied: the meticulous placing of actors and objects in a frame, the charged and stately grace of a camera movement, the surreal images from someone else's dream. Yet you should also feel the spectacular unity of vision and visuals, of passion and method. Compared with The Sacrifice's art, the formal sophistication of even the best Hollywood movies seems superficially applied, like press-on nails and a styling...
...George knew a thing or two about morale. Grace under pressure and all that. So the next time you get that in satiable urge to tell someone that you have more work than them, shut...
Romeo Gigli, at 36 the most established of the young comers (annual sales of $12 million, up from $5 million last year), did not have to look so far afield for his inspiration. His sundried colors, the monastic grace of his tailoring, are a direct reflection of the Japanese design innovation of the past decade, especially the work of the formidable Rei Kawakubo. Gigli has simplified and styled down many of Kawakubo's more cerebral inventions for her Comme des Garcons line, added a dash of Milanese insouciance and found himself among the hottest designers in the marketplace since...
...WHOLE, the style of The Enchanter is somewhat disappointing. It has a lyrical grace, but the poetic descriptiom gets out of hand. The narrative is pumped with sweeping fetishistic passages. Told in the third person, it lacks the directness of Humbert's first-person narrative...
...good material to work with and easy material to mess up. Fortunately, Jonathan Tolins' directing keeps an unstructured, multi-faceted play extremely coherent. Oleson and Clark are strong centers to a strong cast where even those playing minor roles are impressive--in particular, Mary Beth Hewitt as the grace-under-pressure and deadpan stage manager...