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...around, the filmmakers understood that these weren’t pieces of fine art, nor should they be, and at times acknowledged their slapdash nature, eliciting a great response from the crowd. In “Dead Weight,” the protagonist, who’s just run over a women and has dragged her bloody corpse into his house, tries to get his roommate’s attention by screaming, “Does it look like I have fucking ketchup on my shirt...
...every intention to explore what it means to go to a mosque…[but] there’s so many things that get in the way of [good intentions], like life—and hormones.” Or so contends the sardonic, reluctant Muslim protagonist of “Raisins not Virgins,” Sahar Salam, near the beginning of the play the precise series of events that has led to her religious apathy...
...1930s, the film has an unhurried pace, and the amplitude with which it envisions the land, its alternation of the idyllic and the menacing, evokes one of that era's classic forms, the road movie. And then, in effect, reimagines it. Here the road movie's traditional protagonist, the wayfarer whose only resources are wit and courage, is transformed into a young girl. Enchantingly played by Meredith Salenger, 14, Natty is obviously more imperiled by the hobo life than a man would be. And her gumption flatters without fawning upon the modern young woman's sense...
Zwilich's new symphony is a 24-minute, three-movement, fast-slow-fast essay that daringly transforms the cello section into a collective soloist, a throaty protagonist locked in combat with the rest of the orchestra. Hard driving and explosive, the piece erupts from a single rhythmic idea that propels the music forward relentlessly. Even the moody slow movement cannot dilute the restless surge, which continues undaunted right to the final bar. Under Conductor Edo de Waart, the San Francisco players gave the 'Cello Symphony a committed, accomplished performance...
...friends, he hears two little birds sharing the news from Rome that the Pope had died. The cardinals are set to elect a successor, one bird tells the other, and one of the three boys under the tree will be the next pope. This of course sends the protagonist off to Rome, leaving his two oblivious companions behind. Once in the eternal city, as ancient legend holds, a dove landed on his head, designating him as the next pontiff. And the boy went on to be one of the great popes in history...