Word: semiabstractions
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...indebtedness to theater is just one of the revelations in a new career-spanning volume, Koudelka, in which the itinerant Czech master presents more than 150 of his most celebrated images-from his earliest shots, never before seen, to the bold, semiabstract panoramas that comprise his work today. It also includes the photographs first published in his best-known books, Gypsies (1975) and Exiles (1988), now costly collector's items...
Director David Chambers has shaped Korder's sprawling scenes with a conductor's feel for the mix of noise and quiet, action and repose, and Ming Cho Lee has designed some of the most strikingly eccentric sets in recent memory, full of skewed angles and semiabstract swatches of color. Michael Stuhlbarg, as Newman, spans nearly half a century with utter conviction, and Mark Harelik fires up the stage as Hayes...
...characters engage in a daisy chain of sexual encounters. Hare updates the play in predictable ways--the soldier becomes a taxi driver; the "young miss" a miniskirted model--and has all the parts played by the two stars. The casting gimmick, along with the chicly impersonal production (a semiabstract set framed in neon), makes the vignettes seem more facile and obvious: Schnitzler's acid portrayal of sex as the great leveler on a climb up the social ladder now looks more like Love, American Style...
...Irish and blue collar. He is an ex-Catholic but in some crucial respects a Catholic still, and his work is charged with religious references and rhapsodic diatribes of moral insult that verge on panic. Jesus makes frequent guest appearances, and so do felt banners that parody the soppy semiabstract devotional art of the all-but-forgotten Sister Corita Kent, a liberal nun of the '60s. I AM USELESS TO THE CULTURE, BUT GOD LOVES ME, one of | Kelley's banners reads. He is as deeply immersed in the religious aura of his infancy, pre-Vatican II, as any Chicano...
...Miami Vice, chances are they will be before the hour is over. The plots whiz by with a minimum of exposition, the dialogue is tough and spare, the rock music almost nonstop. Characters may be shot in lyrical long shots or bathed in moody lighting or framed against semiabstract pastel backdrops. The local color of South Florida is augmented by the local colors: flamingo pink, lime green, Caribbean blue. Miami Vice has been filmed under what may be the strangest production edict in TV history: "No earth tones...