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...lens open during an entire film screening. Burning a complete movie into a single photographic frame leaves every print a glowing, radiant white. These photos are thus not just gorgeous documentation of theater interiors (some of them now demolished) but the screens are encapsulations of two hours of light, motion and experience into one dazzling instant...
...This adaptation of Arthur Golden?s best-seller baby-stepped onscreen with high hopes and big hype (including a cover story I wrote for TIME Asia). On opening day, the smarter critics slapped Geisha out of its reverie, and no one knows if the Motion Picture Academy members, for whom it was made, will ignore the reviews and give it lots of Oscar nominations. But as one of the movie?s admirers, I?m sticking to my story: that this far-East fairy tale, about the geisha Cinderella (Zhang Ziyi), her wicked stepsister (Gong Li), her fairy godmother (Michelle Yeoh...
...shaking a tail feather in his patented chicken dance. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles, Streisand jokes and familial reconciliation. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which extends Park?s Oscar-winning stop-motion short films to feature length, is about a creature that terrorizes townsfolk by eating their prize vegetables. With their usual precision and fey wit, Park and his Aardman colleagues have created a horror-romance that owes as much to Jane Austen's social comedies as to the Hammer monster movies...
...painstaking account of the making and breaking of an intricate man. Oppenheimer directed the successful U.S. effort to develop an atomic weapon during World War II. But after the war his opposition to the push for an even bigger weapon, the hydrogen bomb, helped set in motion the events that led to his being stripped of his government security clearance. The authors show the ways in which Oppenheimer was complicit in his own destruction, but never lose sight of the ugliness of the process...
...movie in its own right. Its only flaw is that we have to wait so long for Season Two.—Alex C. BritellFor those of you who don’t frequent UrbanDictionary.com, the term, “Awkward Turtle,” refers to the hand motion one makes at times of situational discomfort—one places one’s hands on top of each other and spins one’s thumbs forward. Thus, a turtle is created. Everyone’s favorite melodrama has spawned many a turtle in my palms this season...