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...have moved on to bigger, brighter things, but the aesthetic they devised and inspired has gone mainstream, turning up in everything from Danish television shows to bare-bones thrillers like Open Water. As Hollywood players scramble to blow our minds (and blow up their budgets), the dictates of Dogme remind us that cinema isn't just about thrills, spills and special effects - it's about telling a story and telling it well. "We thought it would be fun to forbid everything we normally do in film - music, makeup, effects - everything that comes between the actor, the pure product and audience...
...other hand, if one is as genetically blessed as Ashton Kutcher, the viewer expects a certain romantic suaveness, a Cary Grant-esque inclination to charm. Instead, he demonstrates a horrific capacity to remind you of when your brother was twelve and had no spatial reasoning ability...
Then again, Damon Albarn and company often remind me of that nerdy, sarcastic kid you’re always afraid to take seriously: it might be heartfelt truth, or it might just be a joke meant to make you look stupid in front of all your friends on the baseball team that summer when I was twelve. Anyway, whether self-revelation or mockery of others, a little summer-time prettiness is always worth a shot, especially when you’re about to enter rehab...
...fact, some economics professors do not advise theses at all—although the Curricular Review report says, “We remind colleagues that legislation adopted by the Faculty in 1979 requires all faculty to advise at least one senior thesis or tutorial...
...students from the South have had to buck positive and negative stereotypes. Over 300 of them have joined the Southern Society (or at least their e-mail list), an organization formed to provide a community for those trying to acclimate to a place that doesn’t quite remind them of home...