Word: rusticity
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...Inspired by the success of Japanese horror, other moviemakers around Asia have also embraced the genre. Most of the resulting films are ghost tales that overlay rustic superstitions onto a canvas of urban, middle-class life. They're populated by loners (like a suicidal psychic girl in Korea's The Uninvited), broken families (a traumatized single mother and her daughter in Nakata's Dark Water)?and the disheveled, raven-haired girl ghosts that have come to symbolize Asian horror. Settings are as alienating as the characters are alienated: cramped, paranoid visuals draw out the spooky possibilities of creaky old buildings...
With its simple, log-sided buildings spread out over 150 acres among the Ponderosa pines in a remote part of western Montana, Spring Creek Lodge Academy might pass as a rustic retreat for budget-minded travelers. But Mary and Randy Carben didn't make the trip there from their home in Bridgeview, Ill., for a vacation. They were at Spring Creek because it's where their son John had lived since the morning in June when the Carbens paid two handcuff-brandishing escorts to take their 17-year-old there. Despite its bucolic appearance, Spring Creek is a specialty boarding...
Leader tells his students not to worry about perfection. But for others, seeking it is the whole point. A large contingent of artisanal home bakers will settle for nothing less than flawless, golden-hued, crackling crusts and varied-textured interiors that evoke the rustic bounty of Tuscan villages and French boulangeries. "There's a big difference between a pretty good loaf and a fabulous loaf," says Atlanta-based Maggie Glezer, author of A Blessing of Bread: Jewish Bread Baking Around the World (Artisan; 352 pages). A beginning baker producing a baguette, she concedes, "probably won't get those gorgeous...
...True to form, Nair's vision of her future is as exuberantly eccentric and visually eye-catching as her films. "When I am 50," she declares, "I want to be standing in a beautiful, open, rustic space with a view of Lake Victoria with a group of extraordinary filmmakers, all of whom know how to do a headstand." As always with Nair, it promises to be quite a spectacle...
...Upon arriving, the visitor is greeted by a lobby whose walls have been fashioned from giant old-fashioned olive vats, and which leads into open courtyards, scented gardens and a swimming pool overlooking the dramatic hills of southern Spain. The rooms have a rustic feel?if you're there in the summer, they are light and airy; in the winter they are warm with blazing fireplaces...