Word: surrealness
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CHRONOS is not your typical nature film--no magnified bugs and metamorphosizing caterpillars. Like 1983's Koyaanisqatsi, this 44-minute movie plays with your mind, with your sense of time and space. Using time-lapse photography, surreal images and an eerie soundtrack, producer/photographer Ron Fricke has created a new cinematic experience that beats 3-D and Sense-around...
...film has no story; the plot isn't juicy. Chronos is simply a constant, startling stream of images showing time at work through nature's changes. The concept of altered time is so intriguing, the photography so unusual and the music so haunting that the surreal experience of Chronos shouldn't be missed...
Both visions of modern Japanese design are correct. Where on the one hand there is Tokyo, on the other there is Kyoto, the perfect religious city. On street corners and in train stations are impeccably printed surreal posters that seem only incidentally to be advertising, but in the pages of magazines there is artsy typographical chaos. There are delightfully showboating aluminum office towers (such as Fumihiko Maki's Spiral building in Tokyo) as well as brand-new buildings made entirely of secondhand wood (Atsuo Hoshino's House of Used Lumber, on the outskirts of Tokyo). The familiar and the provocative...
...implausibilities in Beloved may matter less than the fact that Sethe believes them. Uneducated, her heritage and culture reduced to a few shreds of memory, she sees no distinction between the supernatural and the equally surreal facts of her own life. Morrison's heroine is hard to understand, and to forget...
...expresses cheek more winsomely than the remarkable Emily Lloyd, 16, who plays Lynda, the teenage heroine of Writer-Director David Leland's Wish You Were Here! In the course of writing the film Personal Services -- a raffishly surreal account of Cynthia Payne's career as a divinely unhypocritical London madam that illuminated American screens early this year -- Leland learned enough about her early life to offer this prequel. And a marvelously uncluttered tale...