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...pictures tell the truth? Or is the reality revealed by photographs another seductive deceiver, a trick the mind plays on the eye, like the persistence-of-vision trompe l'oeil that makes the consecutive images clicking through a movie projector at 24 frames per second seem like one continuous moving image. Antonioni, true to his creed, won't say - unless we are to take Blowup's last shot as the answer to this larger question. Thomas is seen from a distance alone on a green field. And then he disappears, as Anna had in L'Avventura. This is the anticonjuror...
...Bourne crashes through a window into the apartment where Dash just happens to be, and the two martial artists go at each other like ultimate fighters, using every fist and foot, every ounce of strength and dirty trick, every piece of furniture and plumbing at their disposal, while the camera is often perched just beneath the ceiling to keep from getting whacked as collateral damage. I'd be more specific in my description of this fight - which might have been made to prove Alfred Hitchcock's thesis that killing a man is damn hard work - but I was too excited...
...ambulance and had it dispatch him to the address of his "cardiologist," which, of course, was that of the TV studio. Once on air, Selva, a former radio news executive, proudly dished out the tale of his own resourcefulness, hailing his ruse as "an old journalist's trick...
...they hear ... and maybe they want more. They'll have to settle for buying up his back catalog, because the 21 shows he's playing in London in August and September are already sold out. Naturally, he's giving away a copy of the album with every ticket (a trick he pulled with Musicology back...
...course, the trick of a broad-brush blockbuster such as this is to make all difficulties invisible to the audiences careering from icon to icon. But since the ideals of the late industrialist Solomon R. Guggenheim's foundation include "the promotion and encouragement of art and education in art and the enlightenment of the public," it's also rewarding to note the nuances in the show: how a handful of works can carry the quirky spirit of their original collector; how personal taste can determine the path of art history. Seen in this light, Standing Woman is not only...