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...Tines ’09, and Matthew T. McClure ’09 see their suite as a long-term decorating project—from the rug to the light fixtures. The common room, decked out in black, white, and orange, has a deliberately “bold, graphic theme,” explains Shemtov. A zebra-striped shower curtain and framed zebra prints adorn the wall above the fireplace. Two orange paper lanterns cover the overhead light to create a rich warm glow. “It’s a bit cheeky,” says Shemtov...
...French countryside, the movie starred local non-professional actors Sébastien Bailleul, Samuel Boidin, and Geneviéve Cottreel, to achieve a natural and realistic portrayal of the area. Its depictions of sex, racism, violence, and jealousy won the movie critical acclaim. Soon after directing the intense, graphic, crowd-shocking film, Dumont rekindled the lights around his name—first, with the equally probing, sexual, violence-infiltrated “L’Humanité” in 1999, then again with his first English-language film, “Twentynine Palms?...
...many character nuances getting in the way. Scenes with the mother of the dead girl, intended to add a more human dimension to the murder, tend toward the maudlin and ill-advised. The central scene of the movie, which is destined for infamy (although it is actually less graphic than other sex scenes in the film), features a three-way between Morris, Collins, and Maureen in which Collins’s attraction to Morris becomes apparent and Maureen gains some blackmail material. It seems that the central motivations for all the characters ought to hinge on that scene; however, rather...
...DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, Belgian-born painter and graphic artist whose work was familiar to millions from poster campaigns and magazine covers for The New Yorker, Esquire and TIME; in Monaco. An unwilling student of architecture, Folon left his hometown of Uccle, near Brussels, for Paris at the age of 21, but first found success in the U.S. with his eye-catching, whimsical pictures of birds, flying men, rainbows and billowy landscapes. Always prolific, Folon's style survived translation onto postage stamps, giant subway murals and, in later years, to animated films and sculpture...
...Part of that consistency is in the careful follow-through of visual motifs introduced in the earliest chapters. Black Hole may be the most Freudian graphic novel you will every read. Dreams and symbols play a major role the development of character and theme. Vaginal-like openings appear in such forms as branches being pushed aside or a cut on someone's foot. Guns and serpents make for opposing sexual symbolism. While such imagery has been used before, Burns smartly applies them in ways unique to the medium, integrating them into the very design of the book...