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...Marker's 1963 La Jetee. Set in a toxic future, this French collage of photos chases time backward to a painful childhood image. Gilliam's 12 Monkeys is an all-star, megamovie elaboration of this theme--just what you'd expect from the director of that brilliant dark-side retro-futuristic vision, Brazil...
...time traveling hero sent back in time to find out about a virus that killed most of the world in 1997, this all-star, megamovie chases time backward to a painful image. It's just what you'd expect from the director of that brilliant dark-side retro-futuristic vision, Brazil. But this film is no Brazil, says Corliss: "Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips." Ultimately, 12 Monkeys has the same message of all dour sci-fi satire, Corliss concludes. "I have seen the future...
...batteries, seem oblivious to the fact that advertising should, at the very least, never be ugly. The mere sight of this brood, at picnics and on porch swings, could make one long for the disturbing Energizer bunny. Moreover, the ads try to satirize American life's most overcaricatured theme, retro suburbia. Memo to Ogilvy & Mather: let them run down...
PICKING THE YEAR'S BEST IS always an exercise in nostalgia: looking back a few weeks or months and deciding which people and events are worth remembering. But this year the retro spirit took us back much farther than 1995. Jane Austen and the Beatles were back, and Bruce Springsteen returned to his roots. Discoveries in science (cave drawings in France) illuminated man's earliest days, and the big news in sports was comebacks (Northwestern?). Even in politics, Colin Powell harked back to an era when presidential candidates could emerge, Ikelike, untainted by the usual rough-and-tumble. Still...
...combines the compact, noiseless flexibility of a rangefinder with the auto-everything magic of SLRs--minus the blinking lights, beeping sounds and bulk. With its four state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss T* lenses, the G1 is a thoroughly modern version of the classic Leica, proof that retro is the wave of the future...