Word: minimalist
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...late in tom petty's career for him to monkey with his sound, and on The Last DJ, Petty's 14th album, he remains a committed minimalist, letting jangly guitars, floating keyboards and his much imitated whine rule the day. But Petty is still evolving as a writer, and The Last DJ contains his most interesting and confident material in a decade. As ever, there are small-time characters with big-time regrets, but whereas previous Petty protagonists had no one to blame but themselves, many of these losers are paralyzed by the grip of corporate culture. On Money Becomes...
...quite. Yeoh was outshone by Hollywood's Sharon Stone, just recovered from a brain hemorrhage and still the paparazzi's favorite playmate. Devdas, a three-hour romantic phantasmagoria, got little indulgence from the international critics. Though they sat obediently through dozens of mopey minimalist movies, and one with a brutal nine-minute rape scene, they had a low threshold of pain for a pretty film with pretty people singing of love and loss; exactly one critic (this one) was there at the end. As for Chihwaseon, one insider announced a few hours before the awards ceremony that the jury...
...Hollywood. Suleiman went to New York University, a mile up from Wall Street. The Thai film Blissfully Yours was made by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Blissfully was named best film in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, in part because it plays by the minimalist rules of international cinema: a static camera, forlorn characters, lots of driving and a little sex for spice. See what you can learn in Western film schools...
CheapTickets may be hard to navigate, but it makes up for that tragic flaw by providing wonderful prices to the Internet-savvy. This website offers two different types of searches—the minimalist express search and the much more involved power search. The site claims the power search is geared toward the flexible traveler, but the number of screens one must pass through to execute a power search might lead one to wonder if flexible traveler is in this case equivalent to “one with no life...
...only come from a visit to the structures themselves. The GSD attempts to fill that void by displaying coffee table books directly relating to the subject matter, but the exhibit still feels a little unsatisfying. “Cruz y Ortiz” remains a compelling intellectual exercise of minimalist space creation, if only an exercise...