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...Kind Rewind” an aesthetic success. Individual triumphs of innovation and elbow grease, the bootleg movies are the film’s highlights, sugarcoated with all of Gondry’s quirky techniques. Ghosts wield flashlights and wear saran-wrap, while large cheese pizzas stand in for blood and brain matter in makeshift gangster flicks. Classics like “King Kong,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and “Driving Miss Daisy” all get their own indie treatments, to the delight of those within and without...
...there, something elusive. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov argued that you feel art in your spine, where it prompts a “telltale tingle” of aesthetic bliss.In search of this tingle, I filed into the packed theater and took my seat. There was a golden pole on a stand at one side of the stage. I tried not to speculate about what it was going to be used for. “You came to see naked ladies, right?” founder and tour manager Annie Oakley called out as the show began. The audience whooped. I chewed...
...studio craftsman began with 2002’s “Tallahassee,” which dispatched with the distinctive fuzz and grainy vocals completely. The switch to the studio ultimately proved that Darnielle’s songs didn’t rely on a gimmick, and could stand up in a high-fidelity context. On “Heretic Pride,” the studio flourishes and Darnielle’s songwriting are better integrated than ever. In “San Bernadino,” for instance, an elegant string section provides the only instrumentation. It?...
...victim of it today. This film is about coming full circle, and like all such tales, it is thick with poignancy. After 10 straight losses in caucuses and primaries from Maryland to Hawaii - including the Feb. 19 whupping in Wisconsin - Clinton returns to Texas to make a last stand. If she can't win on March 4 in a place where she has been organizing for 36 years, she'll have to think about folding...
...through damp Belgrade streets to the monumental St. Sava Church, the largest Serbian Orthodox church in the Balkans. There, high priests delivered "prayers for Kosovo." The former Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate Aleksander Solzhenitsyn sent greetings from his home in the U.S. state of Vermont, calling on Serbs to "stand by your graves." (Kosovo is the site of a famous defeat at the hands of the Ottomans that is deemed a cradle of Serbian identity...