Word: panorama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made the mistake of taking it seriously; I thus construed it as a cheap shot against Nietzsche. After all, it's hardly his fault for being dead. In the panorama of intellectual history, there are quite a few dead people, many of whose observations were, and continue to be brilliant. We have come to a rather low form of argument indeed, when one side of this debate tries to discredit its opponent (on a T-shirt, no less) for being mortal. Nietzsche never claimed to be immortal--well, when he did, it was really the spirochetes talking. In any case...
...could be forgiven for thinking that "La Vie de Boheme," the latest film from Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, is a cinematic adaptation of Puccini's opera of almost the same name. The confusion shouldn't last long, though. The film's first scene cuts from a rooftop panorama of Paris to a shot of the starving writer Marcel (Andre Wilms) digging through a pile of trash, muttering "merde...
...hits just keep on coming. Farewell My Concubine, which shared the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, brings its gorgeous panorama of Chinese history and sexual hysterics to U.S. screens in early October. Oliver Stone has returned to Southeast Asia to film Heaven and Earth through a Vietnamese and feminine perspective, basing his movie on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip. And if you can't wait for the December opening of Heaven and Earth for a Vietnamese take on the ravages of war, scout around now for From Hollywood to Hanoi, a singeing documentary journey on film...
...turns her trial into a modern-day government inquiry cum media event. For popular tastes there are Blithe Spirit, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and the Jule Styne musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Newton is also directing a Victorian melodrama, The Silver King, presented as a Dickensian panorama. The other novelty is Carl Sternheim's 1911 satire of German bourgeois class anxiety, The Unmentionables, adapted to McCarthy-era America. The laughs it now evokes are mostly sentimental recognition for bygone jingles, not the disquieting humor intended in the original play's dissection of the quest for respectability...
...critics' darlings and front runners for the Palme d'Or. Jane Campion's The Piano, from Australia, and Chen Kaige's Farewell to My Concubine, a co-production of China and Hong Kong, are very different types of films -- the first an intimate romance, the second a sprawling panorama -- but both are prime exemplars of the qualities Hollywood once monopolized: glamour and intensity, powerful star performances, the pleasures of narrative. Campion and Chen, imagemakers of voluptuous intelligence, have found stories to suit those images...