Word: metas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...route of so many phenoms: being courted and misused by the big studios. Having spent $60,000 to make Pi, and $4.5 million on Requiem, he suddenly had hundred of millions dangled in front of him to direct a Batman prequel, or an adaptation of Theodore Roszak's meta-cinematic novel Flicker. Projects collapsed; time marched...
Stranger Than Fiction” is screenwriter Zach Helm’s first movie, and it shows. Built on quirky narration, sitcom level wit, and self-conscious onscreen visuals, it’s a workmanlike indie-comedy for a mainstream audience.With the success of low-scale Charlie Kaufman meta-films (“Adaptation” comes to mind throughout the movie), it was only a matter of time until someone tried to squeeze out a big-budget film like this. The film’s architects try too hard to latch onto an art-house fad that they don?...
...show, and it is founded on a neat bit of irony: the dancers on-stage are playing themselves. They actually had to go through a Broadway audition so that they could pretend to be going through a Broadway audition.Take the show out of Broadway, and you take the cool, meta-theatrical knick-knacks out of the show. This loss of irony killed the last quarter of Friday’s production. The extended, on-stage discussion about the state of dance, theater, Broadway, etc. fell entirely flat. I might care to hear professional dancers talk about struggles that are actually...
...Harvard students, much as New Yorkers will judge whether Avian’s version lives up to Michael Bennett’s original.This constant self-reflection—reviving theater about theater—preoccupies many modern Broadway productions. It is particularly telling that three of these currently-running meta-musicals—“A Chorus Line,” “Spamalot,” and “The Producers”—each received Tony Awards for Best Musical.Yet even the writers of old standbys like “A Chorus Line?...
...goodtravel sites, so any new entry needs to have a better idea. Farecast.com uses fearsome computer power to predict the direction of plane fares. That helps travelers figure out the optimum time to buy a ticket. It was founded by Oren Etzioni, who created the Web's first meta-search site (it scans multiple search engines) and first shopping-comparison tool. Farecast uses an algorithm to crunch 100 billion prices in its database, then evaluates 200 attributes that affect plane fares. From those trillions of combinations, it figures out whether you should buy a ticket now or wait...