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...looks as though it was furnished for a live audience watching the opening scene of a play. Even with Towne’s substantial creativity, “Ask the Dust” would have crashed and burned without the solid performances of Hayek and Farrell. The fairly simple plot needs the acting heavyweights to add depth of emotion to the tale. Hayek is at her best, depicting a woman strongly connected with her native culture in a society that condemns it. She creates an innocent, yet sexually attuned character who delivers lines that, when said by anyone else...
...1930s, which Gulpilil showed De Heer in Arnhem Land. "We need 10 canoes," said the actor, who had starred in De Heer's previous film, The Tracker (2002). Arriving at a narrative that satisfied both the Yolngu's desire for traditional storytelling and Western audiences' need for plot and pace proved a lesson in cultural navigation. Many Yolngu neither speak English nor understand movie-making: "It was conceptually outside their thinking about the world," says De Heer. The Yolgnu's only requirement was that the film respect their pre-contact culture; only through the lens of the Dreamtime could...
...versatile, quirky yet seemingly lived-in set, and for the entrance “tunnel” constructed of wooden flats painted to resemble giant pages of Silverstein’s books, replete with hand-drawn illustrations in Silverstein’s distinctive style. Despite the lack of logical plot connections between scenes, the number of recurring themes and motifs—communicating through printed signs, treasuring things that are typically considered trash, killing one’s loved ones, and questioning the nature of things hidden under or behind literal and metaphorical surfaces—created a sense...
...told University representatives yesterday. “Make it happen because it’s the right thing to do.” The Harvard project has long been a focal point for community resentment. Permission to develop the property on Cowperthwaite Street and another plot along the Charles River came only after a long series of negotiations between the city, residents, and the University—and after Harvard agreed to provide 36 units of affordable housing and a public park for Cambridge. But residents continue to voice frustration with the University’s lack of communication with...
...stateless actors. So there is no change to the requirement, viewed as outdated by many national security experts, that one party to the tapped call be outside the United States. Which means that for America?s most powerful intelligence tools to be used against its most dangerous threats, any plot has to be discovered while it is still being hatched overseas. If plotters get inside the country as they did before 9/11, the powerful eavesdropping abilities of the National Security Agency cannot be brought to bear. In effect, the new bill manages to anger civil libertarians without fully addressing...