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...Hopper's realism had nothing to do with the prevalent realisms of the 1930s and '40s in American painting. That is to say, it had no persuasive content; it was entirely free from ideology, left or right. He had studied painting with Robert Henri, whose politics were romantically anarchist. But none of the political ferment of pre-World War I New York rubbed off on him, and none shows in his work. The only painting in this show that could be guessed to show an industrial worker is Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1947; and the bald man is posed like Millet...
From a more technical perspective, Director Frank Oz would have done better to hold off on all the close-ups of Omri's face in this movie. While one of the best parts of the film was the realism of the special effects during interactions between the four-foot Omri and the four-inch Boone and Little Bear, Oz relied too heavily on filling the screen with Omri's face in order to emphasize the size difference between the boy and his friends...
...adventures, reads like her novels. In Paula she weaves it, sometimes seamlessly, sometimes abruptly, between graphic passages on her daughter's illness, Allende's own despair, and her metaphysical meditations on the life of the spirit. If the line between fact and fiction seems to blur, Allende explains, "magical realism is not a literary device; it's how I live." Growing up in Santiago, she remembers the great aunt "who at the end of her life began to sprout the wings of a saint," and the clairvoyant grandmother who, Allende insists, could move a sugar bowl across the table with...
Unlike other recent historical dramas ("JFK" comes to mind), the movie sticks closely to the basic facts without opinionated flights of fancy from the director to add drama. It is realism and accuracy that puts this movie over...
Perhaps more importantly, in this age of animated super heroes coming to life on the screen and Disney reduction of history and fantasy into marketable musical numbers, Bridges offers the hope of becoming a classic for our generation. Realism in the movies is all too rare, sacrificed for sugar-coated happy endings...