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...gorgeous-looking dark comedy about a fastidious hit man, was one of the lovely surprises of Cannes 2004 and a winner of the Best Film, Screenplay and Director prizes at the Donatello Awards, Italy's equivalent to the Oscars. The new movie trumps the earlier one, creating a small-town Italian cosmos where love and greed, Venus and venality, are ever on a collision course...
...HOME ALISON BECHDEL As a little girl, Bechdel knew that her father, an English teacher in small-town Pennsylvania, was odd. He was withdrawn, he decorated their house too much, he moonlighted as an undertaker. But she didn't realize he was gay and seducing his young students, and she certainly didn't expect him to kill himself at 44 years old. In this brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form, Bechdel combines stories from her emotionally barren but weirdly fascinating childhood with elegant allusions to Proust and Joyce to make a gripping story of filial sleuthery...
...Saunders gives us perhaps the most explicit allegory of his vision of America’s slip down the slope toward war, following its misdirected push after 9/11—which he has discussed elsewhere in political essays. The protagonist, a nonspecifically small-town American father whose young daughter has been attacked and killed by a stray dog, moves from decking his town with FIGHT THE OUTRAGE posters to developing a “Three Point Emergency Plan” to sympathizing with his grieving wife’s demands: “Kill every dog, kill every cat?...
...first.The set design is spectacularly utilitarian. Designer Todd Weekley successfully creates a set that is minimalist, but provides a wealth of material for the actors to interact with, from mirrors on the wall to the attic platform. The set’s rich earth tones also complement the small-town setting of an Irish village. The lighting, designed by Joshua Randall, is similarly organic and simple; its replication of the progression of natural daylight is especially admirable.The costumes—designed by Andrea R. Bomar ’05—also contribute to the natural feeling of the town...
Students. Teachers. Parents. TV. The Education President. Zero expectations. Feverish expectations. Our story on high school dropouts, as seen through the prism of small-town Shelbyville, Ind., brought plenty of mail--and lots of theories about who's at fault and how to help America's latest lost generation...