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...Homecooking” invites the viewer to find familiar objects in art, and to find art in familiar objects...
...dressed as Hugh Hefner. And throughout, the film’s often eccentric questioners—a large robot, a philosophizing guitarist, a strait-jacketed kook and a pillow-clutching man walking through the streets in baggy pajamas, among others—succeed in stimulating the viewer with their odd appearances...
...that lend weight to the quality of his operation. He does, as mentioned above, possess the book-smarts to craft articulate and lucid answers to the questions put to him. Yet his ideas, frankly, are not that interesting. There is little reason for the intelligent viewer to sit through another discourse on the problems of our society’s increasing addiction to artificial realities. Consider also his shallow thoughts on language and mathematics: Words and numbers, he says, mean nothing when removed from their contexts. Only those who have been trained to recognize...
...truly, the chance to explore the film’s diversity of tones and attitudes constitutes a sizable portion of its appeal. The material in Conversation For a Dollar is delivered in such a palatable and speedy style that it’s difficult for the viewer to find the time to retreat into one’s mind long enough to determine the value of all of the opinions that the hero has dished out. If, upon later doing so, one finds that the film’s most pleasing moments were tempered more...
...exhibit, Apesos’ artistic experimentation seems fragmented, and spread about in pieces. Apesos only sparsely textures his paint, making the majority of the work flat and commercial in appearance. The few times that Apesos experiments with a textured application of paint, it enhances the work, and makes the viewer wish he had used these techniques more often. Additionally, Apesos’ style changes very little throughout the exhibit. For the most part, he uses oil paints to create clearly defined images, reminiscent of the Romantic painters, but on a few occasions he creates a somewhat blurred, muted scene, making...