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Huyghe succeeds in this undertaking thanks to his abilities as a skillful bricoleur and director, assembling and refashioning the forms, talents, and histories of others into his own vision. In the Carpenter Center project he adopts the techniques of commercial filmmaking, refocusing its purpose of creating desire in the viewer. Huyghe recognizes his role as an artist brought to the University to provide cultural prestige. As a result, he brings this “culture” very close to entertainment—perhaps too close for some at Harvard...
...installment, “Flashes of insight from an intriguing philosopher-artist,” on display at the Museum of Fine Arts through Jan. 30. Like Evans’ earlier work, the exhibit incorporates words, lights and the latest technology to create a somewhat bewildering dialogue between the viewer and art object...
...moment or two, before it becomes too inflated to support its far-too-deliberately-encoded theoretical message about language. It’s as if Evans knows he is making some sort of profound statement of communication—and in that knowledge loses the ability to interest the viewer for any extended period...
Desperate Housewives is an even bigger hit. One week it outdrew CSI in the coveted 18-to-49 viewer-age category. But creator Marc Cherry's dark-comic soap was rejected by six networks before ABC bought it. Cherry actually describes himself as a big fan of the CSI and L&O franchises--at least, until they each hit their second spin-off. "Certainly," he says, "ABC's experiment with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire taught everyone something about killing the goose who lays the golden...
Movie watching makes children of us all. The infant it locates within every viewer is sometimes aggressive (when action films delight in breaking their expensive toys), often rude (when comedies exult in wisecracks and flatulence) and, once in a while, awestruck by the splendor of the imagination. Films that aim honorably at evoking childlike wonder are so rare, so vulnerable, that one wants to clap three times and shout, as kids do seeing Peter Pan, "I do believe in fairies! I do, I do!"--until the drab reality of a botched movie shakes an audience to its senses...