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...Rookie doesn’t quite avoid such genre pretensions; this is the film’s weakness. The prologue sequence, for example, involves blowing sand, sepia tones, saints and a baseball flying into the sunset. You may want to leave, but please, don?...
...movement to an earthy sepia red walled room brings with it the organic distillment of the constant connection between Bronson’s own life and the greater significance of the global AIDS crisis. Three life-size portraits of General Idea’s Jorge Zontal, weeks before his own death, rest against the wall. Zontal’s father was an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, and Zontal believed that his gaunt, diseased ravaged body must have resembled his father’s own broken visage on liberation day. Bronson “had to act as his mirror...
...What we're asking is whether Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (Farrar Straus; 528 pages; $26) will become that rare thing, a literary work that everybody's reading? A lot of people are saying yes. The season's other anticipated novels include The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer, Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende, Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul and The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa...
...that I've gotten marginally better at expressing my emotions without the help of sepia photography or self-deprecating humor, I don't find cards all that helpful anymore. Sure, sometimes I'll stumble upon something I just can't pass by, a card that calls to mind with startling precision some long-lost memory or inside joke. For the most part, though, I find myself feeling inordinately grateful that I've outgrown my card fixation...
...than life and make some sense of it all? Director Ted Demme (Life, Beautiful Girls) answer is to use editing and camera effects to create a kind of hyperreality. As in Traffic, filtered lenses indicate time and mood, so scenes on Manhattan Beach in California appear sun-bleached, almost sepia-toned, while the sex scenes between Depp and Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) are red-hued. (Steven Soderbergh may have started a trend in the drug-movie genre. Cheech and Chong might want take note.) Freeze frames indicate the passage of time...