Word: minimalist
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...superb attention to detail and rhythmic awareness they demonstrated on 1998’s Shrink. The new album is a stunning assembly of illusive beats, eerie electronic noises and subtle, meandering melodies. As such, the album sounds like a crossbreed of glitchy, danceable techno, catchy pop-rock and minimalist jazz—all with a sustained art-house aloofness...
Green shoots his groping lovers in the art-film style--long takes, static frame--but his tone isn't at all minimalist; it's achingly, breathtakingly romantic, like the old Hollywood love stories his kids have never seen. (The movie opens with a scene that reasserts the primacy of the first kiss as rite of passage into emotional turbulence.) Around the main couple he devises a constellation of edgy pals and anxious parents; he understands there's no girl so possessive as a guy's jealous buddy, no woman so ruefully knowing as a Don Juan's mom. These glances...
...million last year - are the talk of the industry from Milan to Tokyo. The easy explanation for the success of the house of Roberto Cavalli is that his sexually charged designs returned to the runway in 1994 - the perfect time to fill a missing niche in the then-minimalist fashion landscape. But the real reason for Cavalli's triumph is his wife. In 1978 when Cavalli, then 37, met Eva Duringer, he was already a textile printer, fashion designer and divorcé. She was an 18-year-old Austrian high school student and a contestant in the Miss Universe contest...
GERRY. Gerry, the minimalist buddy drama starring Matt Damon, reflects such a drastic shift in director Gus van Sant’s style and tone that many critics have been tempted to label the film “penitence” for van Sant’s unabashedly commercial recent efforts (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester). But penitence means internal reflection and self-punishment, not suffering imposed on others. Nevertheless, suffering is the primary experience for viewers of this interminable, plot-free bore. Damon and Casey Affleck star as friends, both nicknamed Gerry, lost and wandering somewhere in Death Valley...
...walked the North Indian countryside asking those he encountered if they could spare some scraps of food for the Buddha. In the years to come, this wooden bowl would hold nothing fancier than parched rice and lentils. The Buddha’s diet had gone from magnificent to minimalist...