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...says. “It is not true. When it comes to living our lives, we are not open at all. There is contradiction and division.” Pollitt believes that modern pop culture contributes to this reticence. “We are living in a visual culture, a commercialized, sexual culture,” she says. “We are living at a time where people feel like they have to put their best face forward.” One part of that culture—the push for physical perfection through artificial means such as tanning...
...lack of development. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, known for “Brokeback Mountain” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” adapts Chinese author Eileen Chang’s eponymous short story with exquisite artistic balance, but the film’s visual density simply cannot compensate for its paucity elsewhere. Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Hong Kong during World War II, the film spans the four-year attempt of a Chinese student drama group to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Asian cinema icon Tony Leung), using virginal Wong Jiazhi (newcomer...
...useful information.And context is what gives “Molecules and Medicine” value, allowing it to be more accessible than a medical textbook and more credible than an online source. Context is also where Corey, Czakó, and Kürti’s book transcends its visual resemblance to a reference book; it allows them to teach rather than just enumerate points. The pages explaining underlying biological systems connect the details of any given molecule to the big picture of a medical condition.A section on immunology manages to be not only informative but also strikingly clear despite...
Musicians have come to trust that visual instinct implicitly. "He has an understanding and an ability to manipulate light, and - far beyond that - a love and desire to perceive the human condition," says Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M. Corbijn has photographed Stipe neck-high in the ocean and once woke him at 6 a.m. to catch the dawn light for a shoot. It's a testament to the respect Corbijn commands that pampered rock stars let him photograph them crawling naked along a riverbank (Iggy Pop), cross-dressing (Dave Grohl) or in a loincloth (David Bowie). They turn...
...film's first public showing at Cannes in May, Control won three awards and critical raves. Morton, who has previously acted for directors like Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, was similarly dazzled by Corbijn's debut. "His instincts were not just from a visual point of view; I found his development of the character really fascinating," she says. "For someone who's never made a film before to make a film that brilliant, to get the performances he got out of us, and to carry it, I just think he's extraordinary." For good measure, he pulled this off while...