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...enrapture an audience. The greatest drama of all can take place on the stage of the human face.As Nixon’s antagonist, Frost, Sheen does an admirable, if overshadowed, job. At the film’s start, he plays the television personality to perfection, sporting an ever-present million-dollar smile. By its end, Sheen reveals a Frost transformed from entertainer to thinker, a man who has come to take himself seriously after confronting serious issues.Sheen and Langella are supported in the film by Matthew Macfadyen as Frost’s straight-man producer John Birt...
...director—a “controller”—is regressive. “When the controller is not there, then your mind likes to relax and become itself,” Dorsky says. On Dec. 5th, Dorsky appeared at the Harvard Film Archive to present three of his montage-oriented, silent film shorts. His two most recent, “Sarabande” and “Winter,” were both made this year and were shown adjacent to an older piece, “Alaya,” composed of material from...
...screen time, however, none are given the opportunity to develop into full-fledged characters. “Nobel Son” was filmed in 2005 and languished in postproduction hell for several years. The editing process was clearly fraught with difficulty, as many elements of an excellent film are present, but they never produce a cohesive whole. While director Randall Miller aspires to Tarantino-esque flights of humor and violence, his film fails to strike the proper absurdist tone. In more capable hands “Nobel Son” may have become a quirky classic. Instead, hindered...
...middle piece is based on a war crime in Iraq in which an American lieutenant was accused (and eventually acquitted) of wrongly executing two insurgents. Fragments of a two-sided narrative develop through the dialogue between the lieutenant and the sergeant who accuses him. Bohrer explores how to present the ambiguities of the story through theater. “Leaving things up to the imagination really draws the audience in,” he says. He stages much of his action in the dark and at one point plays flashlights across the audience to replicate the effect of blinding searchlights...
...says the NASA source, both present and former astronauts as well as some NASA contractors are quietly - and sometimes not so quietly - lobbying for Griffin to stay. But the incoming administration is not saying anything so far. It was President John F. Kennedy who famously committed Americans to reaching the moon. Now it is Obama - who so often invokes the themes and style of JFK - who may decide if we go back...