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Last year's allegations of bribery among members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) marred the image of a competition that should be about youthful idealism, heroic achievements and national pride. While one has become accustomed to hearing about unethical actions in professional sports, it was a shock that the directors of the world's most prominent amateur sporting competition had succumbed to the temptations of gifts from cities seeking to host the games...
...love Family Viewing the most," Egoyan says, which might surprise those familiar with his recent work. "It was an incredibly personal expression on my part and I'm still very proud that I was able to execute it so early in my career. I think it has a genuinely heroic character with a rich reward to gain, I just love the humor and I think the format is particularly interesting." Egoyan notes that he's looking forward to the screening of Family Viewing at the Film Archive, because it will be a 35mm print being shown on a large screen...
...None of the subjects of the photos are so blatantly heroic as the survivors in Antarctica. Instead, we see a woman in a flowered dress, looking off into the distance. An elderly woman builds a house of cards. A man wearing only briefs stands proudly straight in the middle of a snowy forest. A drag queen picks fake fruit off strings in lush greenery. A naked man walks away from an Edenic highway rest stop...
...None of the subjects of the photos are so blatantly heroic as the survivors in Antarctica. Instead, we see a woman in a flowered dress, looking off into the distance. An elderly woman builds a house of cards. A man wearing only briefs stands proudly straight in the middle of a snowy forest. A drag queen picks fake fruit off strings in lush greenery. A naked man walks away from an Edenic highway rest stop...
...course of the play, however, both predictably learn that degradation is not so easily overcome. Arciniagas infests Jean with the great passion of Strindberg's typical heroic, mythical, self-willed man. Yet along with this determination, Arciniagas recognizes Jean's uncanny brutality and sorrow as he yearns for a sky that he can't reach, a yearning that ultimately leads to a climactic confrontation with his mistress. Only through violence does Jean transcend Miss Julie. Only by degrading her into little more than a whore (through graphic directorial choices leading to a violent, on-stage rape scene that must have...