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...pulls back the curtain on Elizabeth, rehearsing a momentous address to the bishops of England, does the Queen herself take center stage as a feminist vision of powerful womanhood--using intelligence, humor and finesse to spellbind her subjects with her own authority. For once, the film emerges from the shadow of its most prominent artistic antecedent: The Godfather. In this sequence, we watch as Elizabeth rewrites history, beginning her speech halting and uncertain, and slowly coming into her own as a power broker. This, finally, is a display of the allure of power at its best--Blanchett's charisma becomes...
...relief, the Handbook on Race Relations did no such thing. It is an entirely uncontroversial collection of interesting essays from students and scholars that, according to Dean Archie Epps, should "deepen our understanding of the light and shadow surrounding the important subject of race relations" and "affirm the `common ground' in human experience." But what is this "common ground"? If we could define this nebulous area of human experience, that would certainly be a step in the right direction...
Zhang did not attend the screening. Zhou will attend an 8 p.m. screening tonight of The Emperor's Shadow. Government censors in China have not yet approved his film Common People, which will be shown Tuesday at 4 p.m. Zhou will lead a discussion after the film...
...poisons of anti-Semitism. His eyes were failing too. In this show, which travels next to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion of Lee Friedlander's tumbling nudes. This is Degas, cold and formidable, who saw what was angular in what was modern, even when he painted ballerinas...
...themes working through the stories, it is disillusionment that seems to cast its shadow most often upon the main characters. In "Willing," an actress finds herself without money and fame, moves back home and takes up with an auto mechanic: "It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with...She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told `There you go.'" In "Real Estate," a woman named Ruth becomes so dissatisfied with her life that she finds metaphysical consolation only...