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...Later, Stella will descend into misanthropic madness in a Perth boarding house, while Perdita, starved of her sisterhood with Mary, will seek out "the families of readership" as a trainee librarian. With a mastery of mise-en-sc?ne, Jones writes of the family's future as if it were the past, and the past as if it were the present. For the surviving members, what happened in the station's kitchen continues to play out, not unlike the true-life case of a Japanese soldier lost for 29 years in the Philippines jungles, who refused to believe World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in Black and White | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...this story’s mise en scène seems far too obvious. After all, Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium 210, which is 250 million times more toxic than cyanide. In order to get this obscure substance experts said one needs access to a nuclear laboratory. And the only reference to it as a weapon was found in a 1994 paper only published in, you guessed it, Russian. But even more importantly, why would the quite professional Russian secret services murder someone slowly, giving them over three weeks to blame them, and do it with a substance that could...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: A Plot Too Linear | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...reverberations and weight, meaning and memories. Beatles songs do what Cirque directors do: tell stories, weave moods, conjure fictional worlds. People coming to Love bring their personal connections to the songs with which Champagne's interpretations must compete. His task is not just to devise a magical mise-en-scene for a number but to equal the power of the original song. Otherwise, a viewer watching the Cirque interpretation of a Beatles song could say, "I don't see it like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beatles Come Together | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...being raised. Same with Sylvia (Maria Full of Grace's Catalina Sandino Moreno), one of the horribly exploited immigrants. Even someone (like me) who might agree with every political point in the film will get exasperated with the obviousness of the portrayals, the stodginess of the drama, the lame mise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Indigestion Over Fast Food Nation | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...Mise-en-Scène The grand entrances gracing the front of Sephora stores are supposed to emphasize the idea of a "theater" of beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sales-Floor Secrets | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

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