Word: minimalist
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...painful amounts of time. In one such scene, the camera rests for a good two minutes on a prison inmate as he watches a fly crawl across his arm. In lesser hands these moments could be rendered meaningless and dull, but McQueen’s film instead uses this minimalist aesthetic to transcend a simple set of plot details. In its depiction of real-life events, “Hunger” falls in an innovative category between straightforward documentary and dramatized historical epic. Much of the movie resembles visual art rather than film, eschewing dialogue and reportage...
...haven’t tried to embellish, impose, or overdo anything. That would just kill it.” Lacking an entirely coherent plotline, “The Birthday Party” relies on evoking emotion, rather than enjoyment, from the audience. Even the set design is minimalist. The stage features only walls on wheels, which move increasingly closer to each other as the play progresses. As with most absurdist dramas, “The Birthday Party” eschews a set in order to maintain focus on the dialogue between actors, thus relying on the cast?...
...tender broodings in pleasant country cadences, coasting to a smooth-edged finish. And in “There Is Something I Have to Say,” Oldham updates the raw José González-style singer-guitar combo with a wash of icy background ambience and a minimalist layering of his own voice for a haunting, lovely effect...
...time. "No interval, but straight through," says Dench, 74, of their Macbeth. "And not a normal kind of production at all. Plain black costumes, all very simple in a very small, dark place. We all stood round an orange box." The play was, as Dench says, "a breakthrough." The minimalist production, directed by Trevor Nunn, spawned a thousand imitations. Of McKellen, Shakespearean scholar Bernice W. Kliman gushed: "No other actor has so well depicted the existential nausea of a man who has chosen evil...
...took to the streets Thursday for a repeat of the nationwide strikes that slowed the country to a crawl on Jan. 29, there was the feeling that the mass social movement had become distinctly personal. More than ever before, marchers said they were not just denouncing the government's minimalist response to the worsening recession, but were singling out President Nicolas Sarkozy as the defiant embodiment of attention to ideological orthodoxy rather than the peoples' pain. As a result, public and political challenges to Sarkozy's leadership are growing - including from members of his own conservative majority...