Word: intercutting
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...perfect follow-up to the HFA’s Persona screening, Mulholland Drive furthers the exploration of human identity, blurring the boundaries of various characters and personalities throughout the film. The movie starts off with a blissfully nostalgic swing dance, intercut with Kodak-moment flashes of a blond woman with two elderly people at her side. Then, a swift cut to a black-haired woman, who emerges amnesia-addled from a car crash and begins scampering through the streets of Los Angeles. These two women eventually cross paths and seek out answers to the mysteries that riddle their lives. David...
...counterbalance to today's facetious, preadolescent movie environment, however, these two dark, ambitious dramas have much to recommend them--and a lot in common. Both are ensemble pieces that intercut the activities and attitudes of three despairing people. Both pictures are, in a way, deeply Catholic statements about grieving--bearing the burden of death in the midst of life--and the ways to face and overcome it. ("Jesus didn't come to save us from pain," someone says in 21 Grams. "He came to help us bear the pain.") In both movies, a violent family loss forces Penn's character...
...Midi (1981), she recreated the palette of ancient tombs: terra-cotta, malachite, turquoise, ochre. Her next move, in the '80s, was to interweave the stripes with diagonals, creating a lattice effect. In her latest paintings, such as Apricot and Pink (2001), the stripes have become wide, vertical ripples, intercut with diagonals in increasingly complicated patterns that create bizarre shapes in a new, brighter color range...
Depends. The rating is mostly for the violence. "If you have kung-fu fights with kicks to the head," explains Joel Silver, the trilogy's producer, "it automatically makes it R." The Zionists engage in a muddy but sedate orgy, intercut with a love scene between Trinity and Neo, the redeemer. Christian subtext, anyone...
...kinder, and the bride and groom found themselves the Monica-and-Bill of the '50s. Top-40 radio stations exiled Jerry Lee's music, and Sun Records issued his next single, "Lewis Boogie," as the B side of a derisive novelty number called "The Return of Jerry Lee," which intercut snippets of his records with a reporter's mock-interrogation. "What did Queen Elizabeth say about you?" "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire...