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Many movies have made violence into art, from the slow-motion bullet ballets of John Woo’s work to the historically poignant impact of Saving Private Ryan. In Sin City, Rodriguez and Miller use a constant stream of savagery to support the movie’s black humor and artful cinematography. Watching the characters “kill their way to the truth” in this film is like pushing Dwight’s car the last half mile of its trip. Cinematic violence can be a high-octane but painfully inefficient fuel, and viewers not thrilled...
Ballad’s director, Rebecca Miller, is Arthur Miller’s daughter and co-writer of the 2005 screenplay of Proof. She and actor Daniel Day-Lewis (Last of the Mohicans) have been married since 1996. They met while Day-Lewis was working with Arthur Miller on the pre-production of the film version of The Crucible, and this is their first movie together...
Ballad in fact echoes this family connection, though only in the sense of a girl meeting her possible “partner” in the house of her father. Unfortunately, the context and result of the situation is a bit less cheery than that of Day-Lewis and Miller. In the film, Jack’s (Day-Lewis) 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camille Belle, Jurassic Park), sees her world fall to pieces in a flash...
Despite the many obstacles to successfully producing Princess Ida, director Charles I. Miller ’08 believes the operetta is “a gem.” Miller says he was offended by the apparent misogynism of the operetta, but saw in the Tennyson poem a way around it. Synthesizing the Tennyson poem and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Miller brought lines from the poem into the operetta to change the tone a bit, especially...
...HRGSP production of Princess Ida is bound to be an exciting and controversial event. Miller stresses, however, that “though the controversy will certainly make things more exciting, the production will stand...