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...less overtly "painterly." Only when Picasso retreats from the heavily textured impasto of his earlier canvases do we feel his work becoming more assured and less self-conscious. Somewhere along the way he realizes that he doesn't need to prove he's a painter by giving the viewer countless energetic strokes and layers of thick paint...
From this period forward, it becomes clear that even if Picasso had died at 25, he would have made a few paintings worth remembering. This point is bolstered by the energy and innovation found in the exhibition's last room, which takes the viewer through 1906, Picasso's twenty-fifth year. Here one recognizes the familiar distillation of planes, clarity of line, and sculptural forms which will become important in his later paintings. At the far end of the gallery, we see Picasso's spectacular, iconic "Portrait of Gertrude Stein" and his well-known self-Portrait with Palette...
Most movies don't begin by asking the viewer to define a word, but Wim Wenders' intensely bizarre The End of Violence does. From the moment the voice-over at the opening credits declares that we should define violence "since we're making a movie about it," it becomes clear that this film is stubbornly going to refuse to submit itself to any familiar genre...
Nobody, that is, except thousands of waltz-happy PBS viewers. Rieu's concert videos, in which he and his 26-piece Johann Strauss Orchestra are seen playing for delirious throngs of European fans, have become a staple of public-TV pledge-drive programming. Last year The Vienna I Love came in right behind Riverdance in viewer popularity. The telecasts not only bring in money for local PBS affiliates, they also promote Rieu's CDs. When he visited the U.S. in August to work the phones at stations across the country, his on-camera appearances helped lift Vienna into Billboard...
...This movie is about uncomfortableness," Lee says. "Whatever you do is somehow wrong. So the actors could not feel self-assured about their performing. It's not about performing; it's about people being observed in an uncomfortable situation." The viewer should feel the same way. A squirming sympathy is the only proper reaction to the clumsiness of the parents' attempts to connect with their kids, like Ben's solemn advice to his son on masturbation ("Don't do it in the shower"). Yet the film's lesson is that, God help us and them, we are our parents...