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...medieval Tuscan village of Sutri (pop. about 5,000) is inhabited, says Rips, by sundry eccentrics, among them a blind bootmaker, an old-timer known to possess supernatural powers in the laying of hands on ailing tractor engines and an illiterate postman. In this slight travel memoir, Rips, a displaced Nebraskan, limns the local characters, as well as the Etruscan culture that bred them. These drolleries are best digested over an espresso at a Sutri cafe; failing that, any Starbucks will...
...gamut this year from Van Gogh to the Art of the Guitar to American Folk. Van Gogh got equal billing with John Lennon’s guitar. Now, an 18th century carved George Washington doll shares the same media market as Van Gogh’s “Postman...
...Patient: Kevin Costner. Diagnosis: Delusions of Grandeur and Overall Yuckiness. Though Costner’s career has been nothing if a total muddle, there’s one thing that’s crystal clear: America doesn’t care about him anymore. After enduring drivel like The Postman, Message in a Bottle and For the Love of the Game (I exclude Waterworld because I actually think it was a darn good movie), even the most forgiving folk promised to boycott all future Costner exercises-in-ego. Which meant, of course, that Thirteen Days, his Cuban Missile Crisis drama...
...censors. Sixth Generation films have often been drastically cut, or shelved for years, or banned outright. Zhang had his passport revoked in 1997 when the Cannes Film Festival invited his East Palace West Palace, the story of a gay man and the policeman who arrests him. The editing of Postman was halted by the censors; the film had to be smuggled out of China, and was completed with a grant from the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 1996, Wang Xiaoshuai made Frozen under the pseudonym Wu Ming (literally No Name), for fear of government retribution; another of his films, So Close...
Sometimes a villain can be attractive. The mail carrier in Postman reads the letters he is to deliver: the whispers of love, lust, fear in a closed society; loneliness begging for another voice to answer, in harmony or dissonance. The voice is the postman's, once he takes the next step and writes responses as if he were the people who hadn't answered these pleas for a little human contact. The director touches the viewer as well. He has a sense of the winsomeness of voyeuristic obsession, and the small, spare elegances of camera placement, almost worthy...