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...Mozart's Requiem, Tues., Sept...
...lyricism of the text is ever present, and Christensen’s prowess as an experimental poet, known for her groundbreaking works in verse—in particular “It,” “Alphabet,” and “Butterfly Valley: A Requiem,” all of which have been translated into English in recent years—cannot be forgotten when reading her prose. The emphasis on cadence and the special weight of each word that appears in novels written by poets such as this pose quite a challenge...
...thing, “The Informers,” a loosely connected series of short stories, doesn’t lend itself nearly as easily to screen adaptation as “American Psycho” did. “Informers” is a four-part swansong, a requiem to that free-love-meets-free-spending materialistic innocence that represented life in early-80s L.A. as sung by a film producer, his estranged wife and mistress, a doorman and his depraved uncle, and a rock star and his addictions. The movie is bound together?...
...right now.”Ditto, Lenny. He’s a dirtbag for leading both Sandra and Michelle on like he does while expecting us to sympathize when he broods like some character out of an artsy feel-bad movie (Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream” and “The Fountain” being the prime offenders). The “Match Point”-esque ending is designed to be a carnival of conflicted pathos—Woody Allen’s romantic anxieties shot through with Martin Scorsese?...
...pictures of Requiem for a New Orleans Neighborhood...