Word: retro
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...suppose Maddin could make his movies anywhere. But no one else could make them. A crazy-smart mix of avant- and retro-garde, they address big topics (corporate greed, national identity, pre-adolescent lust, family betrayal) in a style that suggests an antique silent film rescued from a dump heap - on Mars. The film stock is scratched, the actors declaim in bombastic gestures, the canned music hits overly ominous chords, and the printed intertitles often read like the mutterings of obsession ("Force!" "Must escape!" "What if???"). If this sounds off-putting, jump back on, because Maddin's films - from Tales...
TOKYO Fashionable Japanese dressers select Oliver Peoples' retro classic Riley...
...There was always Pop Art, of course. And in the same years that abstraction was getting thinner and flatter, Pop gave artists a way to reintroduce the recognizable imagery that Greenberg thought was hopelessly retro. But by the '70s the energies of Pop were running out too. Painting appeared to have painted itself into a dead end. It was just around then that Murray, who was born in Chicago in 1940, got seriously to work. Murray had graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962 and arrived in New York City five years later with her first husband...
...absurdly dangerous terrorist plots? "I'm a gambling man by nature," Willis says of returning to a franchise that started in 1988 and had its last installment 12 years ago. He admits that the second and third Die Hards were not great but says this one takes a retro action-movie plot (it's pretty much WarGames meets WarGames) and makes it look contemporary. This isn't last year's Rocky movie, a wrap-up story about an old man. This is full-on, action-hero bombast...
...RETRO AGE The '60s and '70s saw a rising popularity for young gumshoes. Book series like Nate the Great and Encyclopedia Brown were roaring successes. Characters from the TV show Scooby-Doo have remained a staple of the American cartoon diet...