Word: lightness
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...country road. A tree. Evening.”Two men, dressed in tattered clothes, stand around, loitering, waiting. “Funny,” one says. “Nothing to be done.” Behind them glows an eerie light, the nighttime glare of the levee bordering the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. “How could we use the most enigmatic play of the 20th century to talk about what happened in Katrina?” video artist Paul Chan remembers asking himself on a trip to New Orleans in the fall...
...Film Archive on Nov. 7 and 8 as part of a retrospective honoring Denis, who spoke at both screenings. While the premise sounds implausible, she renders this scenario completely real, as she does in all her films. She assembles a collage of circumstantial details that, when brought together in light, image, and sound, seems to express everything you feel but never could articulate. Denis did not grow up wanting to be a filmmaker. As the daughter of colonial officials, she spent the majority of her childhood moving through various outposts in French colonial Africa, including Cameroon and Djibouti. Her first...
...left her chair and re-enacted her pacing. “I never told anyone, but then Bob calls. He said ‘You are just standing there at the edge of the stage. You will just be sloshing back and forth from side-to-side. I will light you from the feet up and the audience will see sparks.’” It was an inexplicable moment of artistic telepathy—one Brown did not care to explain but simply accepted. Therein lies the beauty of her life and work: she embraces the illogical...
...they still thought it was a good idea to try again. 2. No matter how much bullshitting you just did in that essay of yours, I guarantee it’s more genuine than the lyrics on this album. Following are a few samples. Track six, “Light From Your Lighthouse”—a ridiculous secularized version of “This Little Light of Mine”—features lyrics such as “Let it shine on / Let the light from your lighthouse shine...
...disc is obviously phenomenal. The worst songs (“Shakespeare’s Sister,” “Sheila Take a Bow”) are very good; the best (“How Soon Is Now,” “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”) are canonical. Despite its quality, however, there is no real need for this disc, as most fans could simply have assembled it as an iTunes playlist from their existing collections.The real point of “The Sound of the Smiths,” then...