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Consider where so many of us see our friends: at the movies, a washtub of popcorn on one armrest, a bladderbuster of Coke on the other. At a ball game, orange "cheez" dripping from our chins, like a jack-o'-lantern bleeding from a bar fight. And, of course, in those very bars, which is why the phrase "Wanna grab a beer?" in any language really means, "Would you like to socialize...
...figures, one forbidding, the other warming, who inspired many characters in Bergman films, and who appeared with little fictional orientation in his late works Fanny and Alexander, The Best Intentions and Private Confessions. Young Ingmar, we'll guess, was a broody, moody soul with one artistic passion: the magic lantern he was given as a child, and whose miraculously moving images he would later remake and replace with his own. His autobiography is called The Magic Lantern and is mostly a litany of his loneliness and gaucheries. You would think such an inward lad was trapped in a shell...
...were such mythical characters. Their photographs, a selection of which are on display in the Peabody Museum’s “Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921–1925,” are the soft, warm breaths of this dying breed.TIBETAN LANTERN SLIDESWhile analog photography may be a drag, the complications of the process give “Vanished Kingdoms” its distinctive quality.The Wulsins, after their trek through inner Asia, outsourced many of their monochrome negatives to a workshop in Beijing. There, workers transferred the negatives to so-called...
...details that open out, like a paper fan, she makes us feel that we're seeing Japan from within, yet in a language we can follow. It's common these days to hear of foreigners who find themselves in neon-crazy Tokyo, "lost in translation." By going to old, lantern-lit Kyoto, and drawing on four decades of being a student and lover of Japan, Dalby shows us how she, her young American culture-and even we-can be found in an old and alien tongue...
...laughably large new panes of plate glass that amounted to architectural magician's tricks, erasing the old boundary between indoors and out. And the unearthly rays of light beaming from burning lime that transformed any actor on a stage into a shining angelic or demonic figure; the magic-lantern shows of Halley's comet; the new, exceptionally yellow yellow paints and bright red printer's inks, all mixed up by chemists in laboratories; the telegraph wires that sparked and blushed against the night skies like grapevines beset by St. Elmo's fire...