Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nolde's preference for bright, arbitrary colors hints that dreams and dementia are closely related to reality. As eccentric as his creatures may be, they are beguiling and invite the viewer to escape into a never-ending carnival of unabashed hedonism. In their lush use of brilliant colors, Nolde's works are hypnotic. Nolde often camouflages macabre elements beneath slick colors. The lithograph series of a "Young Couple" (1913) features a red print. Unlike the figures in its green and blue counterparts, the red couple shares a chemistry that is palpably heated and sexual. Nolde's red is so freshly...
...brisk or suave. His 1989 Miracle (also known as The Chinese Godfather and Mr. Canton and Lady Rose), a kind of remake of Frank Capra's Lady for a Day, revels in supple tracking shots, elegant montages and a witty use of the wide screen. An American viewer may find the slapstick interludes overdone, but they are no harder to take than the scenes between dance routines in Astaire-Rogers movies. And it's in his production numbers-those double-time, intricately de-signed ballets of fists and feet-that Chan is unique, as star and auteur...
...story by Tarantino), in which the heroes are psychopaths who kill scores of innocent people and get away with it, riding off into the sunset to commit more acts of ultraviolence, the term coined in the before-its-time A Clockwork Orange. But while Orange aimed to sicken the viewer with its scenes of random gut-check violence, the 90s-style film revels...
...eager to guard against these possibilities that we overlook the fact that people are asking us to give up our right. As aspiring journalists, the Crimson staff ought to be very careful before it condemns any sort of visual or printed information as detrimental to viewer's well-being. Does pornography cause violence and mental strain? I believe not, but even if it did this would be nothing compared to the strain and violence possible in a society where a select few are able to decide what others may and may not view. Douglas R. Miller...
Asking hard questions and refusing to provide answers, "Federal Hill" is a praise-worthy first attempt to capture the difficulty of coming of age in a world with limited scope. But, the film leaves the viewer unsure of the precise nature of the problems in the neighborhood, and in its young men. Like life itself, the result is frustrating and inconclusive...