Word: romanticisms
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It’s a little past eight in the morning, and Katharine T. Waterman ’09 is doing the high knee crawl across the floor of the gym, a fake M-16 cradled in her arms. It’s a drill she does over and over...
...Dust,” I left the theater having lost just about all my innocence. Towne’s film, based on the 1930s Los Angeles novel by John Fante, substitutes the tastefully provocative love scenes of the novel for no-holds-barred romanticized pornography. The sex scenes are so raw and uncomfortable to sit through that they unfairly detract from the complex emotions of the characters and the ultimately heartbreaking storyline. “Ask the Dust,” follows the trials of Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a struggling Italian-American author who calls himself...
Duck Season Directed by Fernando Eimbcke Warner Independent Pictures 4 stars If it weren’t for the appearance of an Xbox, porn magazines, and pot brownies, “Duck Season” would look like a filmed Samuel Beckett play. Indeed, in his auspicious feature-length debut...
It isn't easy, nor is it easy to put down, but it isn't quite art either. The fact is, Patterson is an affront to every Romantic myth of the artist we have. He's not tortured. He's not poor. He doesn't work alone, and he's...
Failure to LaunchDirected by Tom DeyParamount PicturesThree StarsBy CHRISTOPHER C. BAKERCONTRIBUTING WRITERRiding on the coattails of the sitcom that made her a megawatt star, Sarah Jessica Parker’s latest flick has a premise that might have been an episode of “Sex & the City?...