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...ingested to create his own voice, grammar and verdant, wildly associative language. "I needed to sing in that language," he says in the Scorsese movie, "which was a language that I hadn't heard before." Maybe you had to be young back then to appreciate Dylan's knack of painting a vivid portrait of some awful moment in time, then of drawing a grander, more troubling lesson from...
...59th Cannes Film Festival, which opens this week, isn't a documentary. Instead, it is a fictional rendering that displays the 52-year-old Roman director's power to push at the walls separating film and reality, moviemaker and spectator, without suffocating in cleverness or self-indulgence. Moretti's knack for knowing the boundaries of melodrama earned him best directing honors at Cannes for his 1993 Caro Diario (Dear Diary) and the 2001 Palme d'Or for La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room). This year, he is again among the favorites to win the top prize...
...movement and sensation can be difficult for some. Chandima Rajapatirana, an autistic writer from Potomac, Md., offers this account: "Helplessly I sit while Mom calls me to come. I know what I must do, but often I can't get up until she says, 'Stand up,'" he writes. "[The] knack of knowing where my body is does not come easy for me. Interestingly I do not know if I am sitting or standing. I am not aware of my body unless it is touching something ... Your hand on mine lets me know where my hand is. Jarring my legs...
...scholar or an artist? Now, I don’t worry so much.” Chadbourne’s art is a combination of narrative, music, and poetry; she weaves together these different media in unique ways, looking to many traditions for her inspiration. She has a remarkable knack for incorporating things that might be obstacles into her artistic repertoire. When on a postdoctoral fellowship in Derry, she had no way to make music, except her voice and a plastic flute. She learned to use the flute, and pursued Sean-nós, a traditional form of Irish singing...
...Bridge to Nowhere, the album's best bet for a big hit, explores the lives of the directionless and dissatisfied. With his knack for storytelling, Roberts takes after iconic singer-songwriters like John Lennon and Bob Dylan, whom he credits as his influences. "I'm trying to make my contribution to the great tradition of rock 'n' roll," he says, adding that it's a "lofty goal." He's already proved himself sharper than most...