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Fogg Art Museum. Through Nov. 14: "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection." Considers the vital moment in history of avant-garde painting in New York by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning and Frank Stella. Through Nov. 11: "Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest." Featuring works by artists such as William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley and John Constable. Through Jan. 6: "The Art of Time: Clocks, Watches, and Other Timepieces from Harvard Collections." Includes many historically significant pieces seldom seen in public. The inner works of each...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Craig's Wife" at 5:30p.m. A portrait of a housewife who walls herselfup, brick by brick, in a tomb of her own making."Devil in the Flesh" at 7:30 p.m.Recollections of the young warrior who, during theArmistice celebrations in 1918, follows hisgirlfriend's funeral at a distance. "Night ofthe Hunter" at 10 p.m. Portrayal of the ordeal anunscrupulous man inflicts on two children in orderto find where their deceased father has hidden...
Althought she claims to cringe when people want to show her thesis film, during these years she developed a documentary technique that still informs the movies she makes. For Salaam Bombay, her portrait of street children in the Bombay underworld, she set up acting workshops for these children and led group discussions to learn more about their lives, their speech patterns and attitudes as well as to acquaint them with the filmmaking process...
...picture Perot paints of Mexico ignores that nation's growing trend toward democratization and modernization. To rally opposition to NAFTA, Perot often relies on a portrait of Mexico as dirty, corrupt and backward. He uses border pollution as a code to conjure up stereotypical images of filthy Mexicans. (Though few would have guessed he is a closet tree-hugger, Perot is not above dressing in green when it suits his needs...
Thereafter, in The War Room, Clinton is pretty much a voice on the telephone, an image on a TV screen, a remote figure being hustled down corridors and into limousines. And this documentary by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus becomes less a group portrait of a campaign team in action and more a character study of the candidate's designated weirdo. But that's all right; Carville is a terrific character. If this were fiction instead of cinema verite, Tommy Lee Jones would play the part...