Word: surrealism
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...also produced celebrated films. The most recent of these, Songs from the Second Floor, won the Prix du Jury of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Described as “a searing meditation on millennial decadence” by the Harvard Film Archive, the film is composed of 45 surreal, darkly comedic vignettes that highlight the absurdity of human existence against a dreary European backdrop. As for Andersson’s other films, catch A Swedish Love Story on Wednesday, October 20 at 9 p.m.; Giliap on Tuesday, October...
Life has to be busy for the man who helped make Latin movies the hot dish in world cinema. From Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, filmmakers have created works of whirling vigor, social conscience and a visual style just this side of surreal. And in these films audiences see compelling actors. Often in Almodvar films--Antonio Banderas, Penlope Cruz and Javier Bardem got early spotlights in them...
...handshake and a word with John Kerry was just absolutely amazing,” she said. “Absolutely unbelievable...a little surreal...
Like other Floridians, Goldenberg found the onslaught of wind and rain over these past few weeks somewhat surreal. No sooner had residents of the Sunshine State draped tarps over roofs damaged by Charley than Frances came along. And no sooner had they started to clean up after Frances than Ivan loomed. And yet, reflects Goldenberg, the real wonder is that Florida has been spared for so long. "I'm in shock over the damage and the deaths, but I am not surprised," he says...
...hours southeast of the Turkish capital of Ankara lies a surreal landscape of giant pink rocks carved by nature into phantasmagoric formations. Locals call the area Cappadoccia, or "fairy chimneys," and at nearly every roadside stop, there's a stall selling gozleme?the flat bread native to the region. A mixture of feta cheese, parsley, vegetables and spices is wrapped in dough and sizzled over a hot griddle until perfectly crisp. Gozleme is tangier than an Indian paratha, more robust than a French crepe, and altogether delicious...