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...conference room on the Universal lot, Steven Spielberg showed a couple of guests a printed card. On the card was "The Vow of Chastity"--Ten Commandments of simplified filmmaking, as proclaimed in the Dogme '95 manifesto by directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Spielberg spoke enthusiastically about Dogme and said he'd like to make a film under its rules...
...Dogme is the hot word in serious film circles. Its precepts were first used in Vinterberg's The Celebration, the family-in-tatters drama that was a worldwide success. Dogme 2 was Von Trier's The Idiots, an aggressive comedy with porno elements. Now come Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's easy-to-take Mifune, about a young businessman who goes home to settle his late father's estate; Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive, set in Namibia and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh; and, opening next week, the first American Dogme film, julien donkey-boy, by genius nasty boy Harmony Korine...
Korine, who wrote the scabrous Kids, then made on his own the widely praised and reviled Gummo, had already planned his new film--the largely improvised story of a schizophrenic (Scottish actor Ewen Bremner), his bullying dad (Werner Herzog) and pregnant sister (Chloe Sevigny)--when Von Trier & Co. suggested he make it under Dogme strictures. "I liked the idea of it being a rescue action from the elevation of cosmetics," he says, "the idea of not hiding behind the trickery." Bremner found that the stripped-down system let him focus on his craft: "I don't have to reserve...
Today most Americans would say that those delegates got it backwards, but that viewpoint says more about how much the Senate has changed than it says about the framers' wisdom. When the framers chose the Senate to be the trier of presidential impeachments, they did not expect senators to be popularly elected, they did not foresee the ascendance of powerful political parties, and they may well have expected secrecy to be the norm in the Senate, as it was during its first six years...
...justly in an open environment or in a closed environment. It just might turn out that a public Senate vote will produce a verdict inconsistent with the national interest. That is exactly what the nationally-minded Alexander Hamilton had in mind when he defended the Senate as the trier of presidential impeachments in Federalist Paper No. 65: a body that would be less accountable to public opinion in the several states...