Word: twilight
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...TOKYO TWILIGHT (TOKYO BOSHOKU...
Cinephiles know the Winnipeg-based Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs) as a unique, independent spirit who makes modern movies with exquisitely anachronistic techniques: fake degraded stock, blue and yellow tints, declamatory acting styles and lighting so soft-focus, Garbo could have bathed in it. The Saddest Music in the World, based on a script by Kazuo Ishiguro (author of The Remains of the Day), is Maddin's first superproduction. It boasts a $2.5 million budget and a few actors you may have heard of: Rossellini, Euro-Kewpie Maria de Medeiros and Mark McKinney from...
...Tokyo Twilight...
...dreary cubicle farm consecrated to obscure bureaucratic functions. When a co-worker dies at his desk while working overtime on a pointless assignment, Paul's low-level anomie turns to panic at the prospect of "an eternity of meaningless work in an empty office in an eternal twilight...
...Laing is the drover's wife of Australian photography, Bill Henson is its Caravaggio. Entering the Old Master's new suite of seven photographs, which Henson has installed in a darkened room, is like entering night - or, rather, the twilight zone. His portraits of half-clad teens offset by landscapes of twisting roads and glinting industry capture life on the cusp - between light and dark, bush and city, innocence and experience. For Henson, something dies each time he releases the camera's shutter. "It's relentlessly fascinating and powerful to me for that reason," he told Time last year. "Every...