Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March 26.
This adamant adherence to his own artistic vision paralleled his egotism, which, even at a young age, was noted by his fellow schoolmates. Though his unquestionable talent was admired by Rembrandt as well as the great French painter Nicolas Poussin, Testa's proud and aloof nature often made him the...
"She's willing and brave enough to risk controversial roles like 'Crimes of Passion' and `Julia and Julia,' and potentially unglamorous roles like `Peggy Sue Got Married,'" said Dwyang. "She's played both the femme fatale and the quintessential modern romantic commedienne--that's versatility for you. She resists typecasting...
In the end the sword does turn up, after some unlikelihoods normal to popular adventure. Perhaps it was Arthur's, but Burgess, who invented it, now seems to feel that it doesn't much matter. Both he and his characters discount Welsh nationalism as unserious playacting. One of his protagonists...
Law of Desire and other Almodovar films take many cues from homoerotic cinema, from the fascination with lust and death that animated certain films of Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger, John Waters and R.W. Fassbinder. But Almodovar also looks back in glamour to '50s Hollywood, when Rock Hudson could comfort a...