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Soderbergh doesn't miss a trick, and for a while it's fun for us to share in his fun. But there comes a moment when his Euro-noir film turns into another sort of exercise for the audience: an exercise in boredom. We begin to see that Soderbergh is counting on style to distract us from the familiarity, not to say banality, of the narrative that Paul Attanasio has winnowed out of novelist Joseph Kanon's rather good thriller. What we have here are two standard noir characters. There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning...
...that's the trick of reality television. It isn't real. Even assuming that Apted wants to be faithful to his subjects' dreams, moods and rancors, we have to wonder what important elements are lost as he reduces the two days of interviews he does with each subject to 10 or 15 mins. Any writer or editor knows this: subtlety is what's lost in compression. Sometimes the truth, whatever that is in understanding a person's life, is also at risk...
That glimmering water wall is more than a spectacular variation on wallpaper. It's an ingenious visual trick, an instantaneous conversion of nature to art by the mere act of framing the scene. Europe in the 18th century saw a vogue among painters and travelers for the Claude glass, an optical device that framed views in the manner of landscape painter Claude Lorrain and lent them something like his subdued tones. The Mediatheque functions in a similar way, but with even simpler means, aestheticizing a bit of nature simply by pointing us toward it just so. In a room where...
This weekend against Yale and Brown, Brine continued to add to her statistics and play the role of finisher, as she notched six goals—including two game-winners and a natural hat trick during the Crimson’s 8-1 victory over the Bears on Friday.On Saturday, she scored the second goal in a 5-1 win for No. 7 Harvard (7-1-0, 7-1-0 ECAC) over the Bulldogs...
Brine could not quite finish a second hat trick against Yale a day later, but her two goals in that contest brought her season total to 12. That tally is better than any teammate by four and has her currently at the top of the national leaders in goals per game with an average of 1.50. In points per game, she only trails teammates Chu and Vaillancourt with...