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...plot plays with this notion by mixing folklore with the fantastic. When someone dies in a rage, sorrow lingers in the place they died, spawning undead creatures that will murder anyone that attempts to inhabit that space. Thus, one woman’s obsession with a university professor begets a grudge that will leave her and her murdered son undead, forever lurking in their old home killing anyone who tries to move in. Jumping back in time we see the murders of several innocent bystanders throughout the film as they all in some way become connected with the home...
...this passive philosophical notion of our random interconnectedness perverted into a chilling precept of horror. Shimizu makes the most of this, generating tension and genuine terror with a slow, sweeping camera that seems to glide across the traditional Japanese interiors with neither rhyme nor reason; he uses frequent long takes with symbolic tableaux in the foreground and complex interactions occurring in the background. Shimizu takes this potent philosophical notion and maximizes it’s potential for a startling filmic effect; at least, for the first 30 minutes...
...they disagree rather than having a meaningful dialogue. One would only have to look as far as UC Berkeley’s Horowitz debacle or Cal Poly’s censure of Steve Hinkle to realize that. It is troubling that the culture of academic life has eschewed the notion of vibrant discussion. Instead, we stifle what we do not want to hear, and we fail to engage on topics for which we have not studied. If we walk away from our debates, we will never be able to progress, and the culture and cause of intellectualism will be beyond...
...Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as saying, “we must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.” The fulcrum of this exhibition, which spans the whole period of the techniques of modern flat printmaking, is the exposition of the vice and the virtue of this new technology. It sets before our eyes the history that Valéry predicted as “profound changes impending...
...1960s and the sporty "Beene bag" dress in the '70s, and in the early '90s used ballerinas as models to demonstrate the ethereal lightness of his designs. Known as a contrarian among his Seventh Avenue peers, Beene did not follow trends or play the fashion game, often rejecting the notion of fashion as commerce in favor of it as art. --By Kate Betts