Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listed in every syllabus, but more and more students, art educators point out, are eager to learn about ignored talents. How to select which ones to study? Says Spero: "It's so subjective. It always comes down to that old chestnut, quality." Whether feminists like it or not, the viewer's quest for quality may be as fundamental, and inevitable, as the artist's urge to create...
...single X-rated theater, topless bar or massage parlor inside the city limits. That is small comfort to museum directors elsewhere, who fear they could be next. Some plan to testify as expert witnesses, hoping to persuade the jury that pictures may resemble porn but also affect the viewer in the more complex manner of art. "These photographs are not meant to titillate," says Arnold Lehman, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. "They don't have that vacuous anonymity that pornography is so much about...
...that the plot is complicated is a severe understatment. Refusing to cater to the audience's lowest common denominator, The Two Jakes forces the viewer to pay very close attention while the plot unfolds onscreen. Towne returns to his former scripting glory (with a little bit of help from Nicholson) after sinking to an all-time low with the recently released Days of Thunder. The Two Jakes is a great detective story, with all the clues, (intelligent) action, and philosophical narrative voice overs that accompanies the best in the genre. But more than that, the film is about persons...
...excellent film, easily the best of the summer releases. Like every truly great film, it is an insightful commentary on the human condition. The power of the past, and how the commitments made their carry a timeless moral weight, is the subject of the film's intelligent inquiry. Any viewer, especially one with a thoughtful appreciation of the complexities of Chinatown, cannot help but be impressed with Nicholson's The Two Jakes...
...nagging feeling of deja vu that plagues the viewer throughout The Freshman obscures some of the film's considerable accomplishments. The Freshman is about the rather rude introduction Clark Kellogg gets to the big city. Eager to start his first year at NYU Film School, he arrives at Grand Central Station and is immediately conned out of all his money and possessions by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby). Kellogg meets up with Ray again and in order to make up for his past wrongs, offers him a job working for his uncle, Carmine Sabatini, a prominent importer with dubious business dealings...