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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is the first time that a major civic institution has taken part of their financial assets to support community development," BCC's Jones said. "Other universities and institutions in Cambridge and across the country will look at this as a model...
...wealthy uncle, Fanny moves to Mansfield Park, where she lives as a quasi-servant--constantly aware of her secondary status--for the duration of the story. In the novel, Fanny is quaintly moral, and pretty much chock-full of sugar and spice and everything nice. But Rozema has taken Fanny to new heights by giving her a boldness and sauciness which the director seems to fashion after Jane Austen herself--Austen in all her fierce humanity, her devastating wit, and her deep-seated belief in the power of love between two people...
...Extending this sort of brash independence and playful wickedness to the rest of the film, Rozema has departed quite a bit from the subdued, "pretty" tone taken by other Austen filmmakers.And in losing this, she's brought social criticism to the fore. The film practically drips with satire--but it's a satire that's not entirely Austen. Of course, the story itself mocks many of the mores of the society Austen depicts, and the movie, accordingly, is not without some excellent moments (Harold Pinter makes an excellent pre-Victorian patriarch, dropping proper ultimatums right and left...
...Dealers Association, a photograph of a very large and proud group of Boston artists standing on the steps of the Boston Public Library is used again and again. This photograph, called A Great Day in Boston, is--as acknowledged by the photographer--a direct quotation of a famous photograph taken by Art Kane in 1958 called A Great Day in Harlem, which showed a very large and proud group of seminal jazz musicians smiling at the camera...
...Other movies have also taken a humorous angle with the Holocaust, why use humor to portray such a tragic event? What about the inevitable comparisons to Life is Beautiful...