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...DIED. JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, 71, novelist, essayist and (in collaboration with his wife Joan Didion) screenwriter; in New York City. His novels (Dutch Shea, Jr.; True Confessions) were full of Irishry-tough and compassionate, knowing without being cynical, true expressions of a complicated, cranky, lovable man whose hatred of hypocrisy was legendary. But his best subject was Hollywood, which he anatomized in two books (Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs-but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring to their true tales of movie work. Dunne generally preferred (for their passion and honesty) the "bullies...
...cool Truffaut). This one is cool - freon cold. Truffaut did a book-length interview with Hitchcock, and ?Bride? is supposed to be his homage to the Master of Suspense. But Julie, in her uninflected implacability, belongs less to Hitchcock than to Robert Bresson, the great French minimalist. His heroines - Joan of Arc, Mouchette, the suicidal young wife in ?Une femme douce? - all bear the cross of living. All seek the transcendence of death...
Visiting Lecturer Joan Fontcuberta has asked his students to stage the perfect murder...
...Visual and Environmental Sciences. With the aid of elaborate costumes and lifelike props, Fontcuberta and his photography students stage a murder scene so convincing that photos of it could qualify as forensic documentation. People like to believe that the camera can’t lie. Photofictions—and Joan Fontcuberta’s art in general—are testimony to the contrary...
Manipulating the truth is Joan Fontcuberta’s favorite game, but not everyone likes to play. “I have been threatened, insulted, but I must accept these types of reactions,” says Fontcuberta. Ultimately, Fontcuberta hopes that his art serves a useful and instructive purpose, reminding people of the subjectivity of truth and the limits of one’s own perception. “My work is like a vaccination,” he says, “I try to introduce a virus of innocent hoaxes to provoke innocent reactions?...