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Much has been made of the supposedly anti-American attitude behind Dogville, Danish director Lars von Trier’s (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) latest portrait of a woman wronged by society. But even as the action unfolds in a Rocky Mountains village of von Trier’s invention, the film’s statement about the nature of humanity is clearly far more general than a shrill denunciation of the American dream or George W. Bush’s administration. Like many a great dramatic work—think Richard III or Oedipus Rex?...
Silence Has No Wings, a sensitive and subtle Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki, is a surrealist portrait of post-war Japan. Paranoia dominates the world it depicts, caused by the rise of the new middle class. But the film itself is quiet and controlled...
Silence Has No Wings, a sensitive and subtle Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki, is a surrealist portrait of post-war Japan. Paranoia dominates the world it depicts, caused by the rise of the new middle class. But the film itself is quiet and controlled...
...past: one student rests a jaunty hand on the bald pate of the Faculty Room’s bust of Benjamin Franklin, while another’s skull seems in the process of being tickled by the two-dimensional knuckles of the bygone Harvard don whose portrait hangs above...
Much has been made of the supposedly anti-American attitude behind Dogville, Danish director Lars von Trier’s (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) latest portrait of a woman wronged by society...