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...sleek period architecture the Sachs movie mimes. Of late, noir has often been pretzeled into post-modernism: by Joel and Ethan Coen in The Man Who Wasn't There, by Todd Haynes in Far from Heaven, by Robert Rodriguez in Sin City. Each of these built on the viewer's familiarity with the form to play with and subvert it, to create a new, gnarled noir...
...Analysis 68: “Sexual Economics,” with Professor Epstein, a sexually ambiguous nymphomaniac who proposes sexual hypotheses that they must test. In addition to the show, they are designing a website on which Harvard students can share their sexual testimonies. Berman, the producer, hopes that viewers will take advantage of both aspects. “You can immerse yourself in the show,” he says. Berman also notes that the characters are archetypes that are deconstructed through sexual encounters. The awkward and socially unfortunate nerd gets lucky with the help of his roommate, while...
...featuring grown men fighting each other to the tune of “Why Can’t We Be Friends” is sure to bring a smile to the average face. The scene was just long enough to be amusing, and just short enough to make the viewer yearn for more. The close-ups on Moon and Brown were aptly timed, catching their subjects at perfect moments of bewilderment or sheer anger. Another funny episode finds the Tropics donning heavy black eyeliner to frighten a big-shot team. There is no one reason why this movie fails...
...leaving several subplots and characters undeveloped. However, the heavier emphasis on the rivalry between the sisters and the effect on their relationship allows the film to explore this dynamic in ways that make the sacrifice seem worthwhile. The film’s finest achievement, however, is in convincing the viewer to fall in love with Anne, just as Henry VIII does. Ironically, it does so by oscillating between Anne’s ugly psychological turmoil and her beautiful, calculated, eloquent exterior. In fact, it is in the moments that Anne herself becomes “the other Boleyn girl?...
...about the assassination genre: (1) that it can easily be fit into a standard action scenario and (2) that the plot can be split six or eight ways, into as many points of view. Each witness to the assassination provides important fragments of the information needed for the viewer to figure out whodunit and whether the perps will get away with their atrocity...