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...Stone gets points for speed and efficiency - he shot the picture over 46 days this spring and summer on a tiny $30 million budget and gave it a rich, polished look - but not for the scope of his vision. W. isn't tragedy or farce; it's illustrated journalism, based mostly on extant Bush biographies and memoirs of early Bush appointees. All the incidents are there but not the insight. What's missing is the one thing Stone films have never lacked: a point of view...
...Throughout the day, speakers and panelists spoke about different aspects of leadership, from creating a vision to consensus building...
...injects a bit of Technicolor into her portraits of the stereotypically drab colonists: feisty prefeminist Anne Hutchinson, semicrazed zealot Roger Williams and the colony's first governor, John Winthrop, who coined the phrase city on a hill in a 1630 sermon to describe his hopes for the settlement. That vision--of a community of God's chosen people that would inspire the world--forms the core of Vowell's argument: that the Puritans' beliefs begot an American exceptionalism that, at its best, undergirded a nation's faith in liberty and equality and at its worst helped justify misadventures from South...
...long period, however, he sealed himself off from the public, becoming virtually invisible. Near the end of his career in public, the Times reports, Hantaï presented his work at “a noncommercial exhibition space in Paris.” The artist cited an irreconcilable vision of his work with the public as responsible for his isolation: “I felt that the art world was going wrong… I was starting to receive commissions. I was being asked to paint the ceiling of the Paris Opera House. Society seemed to be preparing to paint...
...focal point. Yet this film is so inexorably tied to that previous work—numerous scenes include fans gushing about “Fahrenheit 9/11”—that it still winds up feeling like a retread. Perhaps it was his lack of cohesive vision that led Moore to dedicate a surprising amount of screen time to musical performances. Singers including Eddie Vedder, Steve Earle, and Joan Baez perform full songs at various points throughout the film. But rather than feeling uplifting, these scenes seem merely out of place. Equally unnecessary is a series of fake...