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...pillows, talking breathlessly about his Brooklyn childhood, where a trip to juvenile detention was “like a class reunion.” He tells some funny and heartbreaking stories about protecting pigeons he was caring for from his friends. Despite the laughs, though, Tyson comes off as self-indulgent and overly eager to paint the unfortunate surroundings in which he grew up. Toback claims this was strategic, causing the audience to be directly confronted with their dislike toward Tyson, then allowing it to erode as he breaks down and wins their compassion.“Maybe you don?...
...Arcade Fire concert film, combines scenes of the band’s performances and offstage antics with bits of found footage. The film is padded with fan testimonials, recorded on a hotline set up before the release of “Neon Bible”; these constitute a self-deprecating acknowledgement of the erstwhile indie darling’s mainstream windfall. But while it hastens to assure fans that the band hasn’t really changed, the movie’s many ambiguities frustrate that impulse. Morisset, who helped shape the viral marketing blitz for “Neon...
...throws up pink vomit is also somewhat predictable, but her brand of “Scary Movie” shamelessness only adds to the two-dimensionality of the mall’s world and Ronnie’s sense of mall-cop ennui. Ronnie’s moment of self-realization—marked by his dramatic declaration that “The world needs a fucking hero”—falls a little flat in this loosely sewn comedy, which is more enjoyable for its unexpected dark turns than its punch lines. In the end, everything turns...
...from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm. The underground history of punk is rife with bands that barely have any history at all; “true” punk musicians, to this day, revert to a sort of self-destructive loop of formation-creation-disbandment to avoid unwanted attention and the anathema of a “signature sound.” The idea of success is alien to punk rock, and simply not present in the lexicon. Bands that move forward—either creatively or commercially?...
...evocative religious figures of his later work, which prefigure El Greco. Perhaps it was intentional that Frederick Ilchman, the show’s curator and a preeminent expert on Tintoretto, constructed the exhibit to make Tintoretto seem the most inventive and original of the three. A youthful and fiery self-portrait by Tintoretto helps anchor the first room, and the last painting is a solemn and piercing-eyed self-portrait of the aged dyer’s son, emphasizing his importance and bookending a rare and incredible exhibit. —Staff writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached...