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...again to the same territory, a scene from the suburbs or from rural America invaded by its desires and anxieties. A man attempts to lay lawn turf across the road in front of his house. A woman kneels in a flower garden that has sprung up in her kitchen. It's no surprise that he loves David Lynch. To get into Crewdson's perennial frame of mind, Lynch's Blue Velvet is recommended viewing. It's also not surprising that his father was a psychoanalyst, because Crewdson has the good Freudian's obsession with fetishes. Circles, birds, stains and windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: If You Build It They Will Come | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...watch—both cinematically and spiritually. In a working class neighborhood of Madrid, Raimunda (Cruz) is completely dedicated her family, yet she is married to an unpleasant alcoholic. When Raimunda returns home from work one day to find her husband dead in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, she learns that her daughter (Yohana Cobo) had stabbed him in an effort to prevent him from raping her. Immediately, Raimunda conceals the murder by cleaning the blood from the floor and hiding the body. Meanwhile, an element of the supernatural appears in the form of Irene (Carmen Maura...

Author: By Michelle L Cronin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Almodovar’s ‘Volver’ Worth Returning To | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...were peeling beans early on a typically hot January morning in Santiago, Chile. I was sitting in the kitchen with Iris, my host mother during my stay in the capital for thesis research. “If you have time,” she told me, “I want you to see my friend. She was your age when she was arrested. She was young.” After a pause, she continued: “We were in the prison together. We sat on the floor, blindfolded. It was like a barn, you know, like where they...

Author: By Lauren R. Foote | Title: Torture Under Pinochet | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...olive oil). The difference is in Ernesto's wrist: dough-stretching technique is critical. Even his son Luigi, working with the same ingredients and oven, can't yet make a pie quite up to his father's standard. "The boys are still learning," says Ernesto of his international kitchen cadre, including Japanese apprentices eager to learn his secrets. Ernesto started to hone his skills when he was 12. Of course he needs help turning out 2,000 pizzas a day, but I shamelessly wait by the furnace to scoop up the magic one made and baked by the master himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life of Pie | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...room is not included in our revolutionary action.'' In my daughter's room I lay down on her bed. Through the window I could see the faint light of dawn on the eastern horizon. When I woke, the sun was streaming into the room. I went to the kitchen and asked the cook to make coffee and toast. A pretty girl with two long plaits over her shoulders came in to watch me. She picked up my coffee cup and sniffed. Making a grimace, she asked me, ''What is this?'' ''It's coffee,'' I said. ''What is coffee?'' I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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