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...difficult computational problem, to find a way to obscure every face that can be seen through Street View, but Google has perhaps the largest braintrust that has ever existed on the planet, and if anyone could solve the problem, it would certainly be the geniuses at the Google-plex...
...film." That moment in Ingmar Bergman's new film Saraband will stir recollections in viewers who are Marianne's age--or maybe Johan's--since the two characters and the same actors appeared three decades ago in Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. But to the majority of 'plex patrons, it is the Swedish filmmaker who is the forgotten...
Before you scan Variety for a headline reading CHICK PIX CLICK AT PLEX, you should know that the women's-film glass is nine-tenths empty. Of the 10 top-grossing movies released in 2002, Greek Wedding was the only one whose leading character was a woman. Of the nine others, six were sequels--parts of franchises that are almost exclusively built around men. Women have to start from scratch every time...
...created this galaxy was working from a very rich palette. In its digital version (Clones will be shown on traditional film in most theaters), the image is shallow but sharp and subtle. If this is the future of movies--at least of epics with visual effects that make the 'plex screen a computer screen--bring...
...love or lust. How they cope with the pains and tiny triumphs of their jobs--in these things, films show virtually no interest, leaving that task to workplace sitcoms and cop and lawyer shows. The idea has always been that people won't pay to see at the 'plex what they just left in the office. To be forced to review our working lives on the big screen--that's not escape, that's overtime...