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While Frank lives on the illusion of free will, his observer lives his life through Frank:
The summer solstice is traditionally thought to be the night when dream spirits are most active. A wood serves as a metaphor for a dream and it is also the best place to set one. A Midsummer Night's Dream is at once a producer of magical events and a...
It is to director Norman Ayrton's credit that throughout most of the two and a half hours of War and Peace, the historian's illusion of control is sustained. By coloring the play's war scenes with two large slide screens that at times trace Napoleon's progress across...
Notwithstanding the shortcomings of the acting, suggestiveness proliferates in the set and lighting. Plastic ferns and gaudy gold grapes appear hideous at first until they assume nightmarish vibrancy under the lights. Then again, it is appropriate to use flagrantly artificial plants for the garden of a supreme artificer. In addition...
These are images of reality-with-a-difference. Gary Winogrand once said "Photography is the illusion of a literal description of the way the camera saw a piece of time and space." Confronted with such hallucinatory visions of the supposedly familiar, a viewer hearing that phrase might catch hold of...