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Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart) has always attended to the subtlest emotional vectors. He sees that though this film's theme may be racial prejudice, it is really the story of a man deciding, late in life, to love the unknown--what is beyond books, pride, even self. To learn that lesson is to turn a stain into a blessing. --By Richard Corliss
...Lampoon, the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, seems still to display its perennial problems. A lack of leadership, a homogenous membership and a culturally ingrained opposition to publishing anything that provokes even the subtlest chuckle all continue to plague the would-be jokesters. Humbly, I propose a few policy changes at the Bow Street castle...
...meaty film role, in Zulu, at 30; the credit read, "Introducing Michael Caine." He starred in 80 or so movies, good, bad and awful, then in his late 60s hit a gold streak of mature roles and quality films. One of these, The Quiet American, contains his boldest, subtlest work; but the events of Sept. 11 delayed the film's release for a year. Again, Caine waited and was rewarded. Last week he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award. On March 23, nine days after his 70th birthday, he'll have an aisle seat at the Oscars...
...tallest.) As it rises, it would echo the lines of the Statue of Liberty just across the water, a sight that Libeskind, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors, first glimpsed as a teenager when he arrived in the U.S. by boat with his parents. In the scheme's subtlest gesture, that tower's upper elevation is given over not to offices but to "sky gardens," whole floors of plant life high above the city. This is architecture that is both cerebral and emotional. The scheme moves vertically from grief through commerce to spirit. Burdens are acknowledged. Burdens are released...
...first-hand look into the making of significant films, The Conversations would be of interest to cinema-lovers only. But as a passionate love-letter to creativity in its subtlest forms, it appeals to anyone interested in what we nobly call...