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...black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces?1951's Southland depicted a lynching?that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest...
...Fast Food Nation, based on the Eric Schlosser nonfiction best seller about the health hazards in the preparation and consumption of Big Macs and Whoppers, should have been a documentary; instead, it fruitlessly created fictional characters who never brought themselves - or the story - to life. Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, widely considered the flop of the festival, imagines a U.S. of the near future in which the government snoops on everyone and a gang of unattractive rebels wreak desultory havoc. Those last two words apply to the film as well. But we come not to bury the bad films...
...black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces--1951's Southland depicted a lynching--that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest...
...Scanner Darkly was the second of two films at Cannes this year by writer-director Linklater, and I'll start by saying it's better than the other Linklater item, Fast Food Nation, which so far has tied Richard Kelly's Southland Tales as the Festival's biggest flop. This one is an adaptation of a 1977 novel by that crucial and deeply disturbing SF visionary, Philip K. Dick. It's Dick's memoir of his addiction to painkillers and other drugs, as refracted through the sci-fi-delic prose style of his later years...
...shall say no more because, in the 2hr.40min. version shown at Cannes, Southland Tales felt not only unfinished but unformed. After his imposing directorial debut with Donnie Darko in 2001, Kelly secured financing (mostly from German sources) for a much larger budget film, with some big-name stars: Dwyane Johnson, aka The Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) and Seann William Scott (Stiffler in the American Pie farces, here in a more serious role). He also hired a passel of veterans from Saturday Night Live, including Janeane Garofalo, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz and Nora Dunn. Plus Justin Timberlake, Wallace Shawn...