Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Interestingly, Riley pointed out that some works, including a colorful Japanese screen depicting a series of rooms from above, use architecture to create conceptual boundaries, separating events that occur in different times, thereby creating a narrative-almost like frames in a comic book...
...purest form--when people die, they die violently and horribly. Good is corrupted, and evil abounds. There is no redemption. There are no happy endings. It is an incredibly dark vision but one that is undoubtedly held be Walker, the former Tower Records clerk-turned-angst-ridden-screen- writer, who must have kept of a copy of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan handy when he sat down to write his first film, Seven, and his new one, 8MM. Both films share an incredibly bleak outlook of the human condition, and while these visions are certainly helped by the director, their essence...
Cage looks good on screen, dressed completely in black with a cigarette jutting out the side of his mouth, and his controlled presence is one reason why 8MM is such a strong, gripping thriller. The great strength of Walker's script is the way it plays on the viewer's emotions more and more as the story unfolds. When first viewed, the events on the eight millimeter film are shocking in their barbarity but not emotionally overwhelming because the girl is just a face with no identity. But as the plot develops, the viewer learns of the girl's past...
...best way to break your neck? Tipping your head back to stare at the screen on the ceiling. The Mugar Omni Theater is showing Alaska: Spirit of the Wild. Charlton Heston narrates the journey into one of the world's last great frontiers. Museum of Science, Science Park. 723-2500. Call for daily show times...
Take the T to the New England Aquarium for a change of scenery. Observe ocean circulation and weather pattern images with the their new interactive satellite. Then watch the ocean deep on a towering IMAX screen after waddling back from the Little Blue Penguin exhibit. New England Aquarium, Central Wharf. 973-5200. Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday...