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...Like a studio releasing once censored scenes from a classic horror movie, on April 1 the Pentagon declassified a key memo used to justify the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Completed six days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the full text of the 81-page document is rife with shockingly broad edicts about prisoner treatment, like this barely constitutional chestnut: "In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to prevail against the enemy...
...Band; Feel Like Going Home (2003), his affectionate retroglance at old Delta bluesmen; and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005), a compilation of interviews and performances from Dylan's early years. All these films speak to Scorsese's fervent belief in movies as music. You see this in his studio pictures: in the operatic intensity of the acting and the camerawork and in their use of music, from arias to doo-wop, to underline an emotion. But he's also done a political doc (the 1970 Street Scenes, about antiwar protests), a loving portrait of his parents (Italianamerican...
McGregor's latest work for Random is Entity, opening at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre on April 10 and then touring France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and the U.S. In an airy studio above the theater in London, the piece is in rehearsal. As the 10 Random dancers watch, McGregor launches himself into a jagged, off-center turn. The dancers copy the move and add it to the existing sequence, a jolting series of leaps and ricochets. The result looks raw, but when he doubles the dancers into pairs and counts them in at one-second intervals...
...relationship between this theoretical work and the dance that comes out of it is not always direct, but each feeds the other. By immersing himself in research, McGregor says, he is able to walk into the studio, surrender to "the visceral thrill of moving," and create from instinct. Dance breaks down if it's overloaded with theory, but it's the physical rush of the choreography that you take away from a McGregor performance - the mesh of high-speed detail, the interplay between the lyrical and the neurotic, the steely calligraphy of the limbs. Few choreographers make more extreme physical...
...Veasey has a studio in an old radar station lined with a foot of lead and equipped with an industrial scanner 60 times as powerful as medical ones. But to make a life-size X ray of a Boeing 777 for Boston's Logan Airport in 2003, even that wasn't enough - he needed artistic ingenuity too. Over several months, he digitally stitched together 500 separate X-rays of the plane. The resulting picture is exquisite and gets beneath the surface of every detail. Except for the pilot and crew: for them, Veasey used skeletons as stand...