Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rural Louisiana in the '60s, and in the humid swamps of the Southern Gothic imagination, tenderness and terror are first cousins destined to marry. With scary assurance, novice writer-director Kasi Lemmons invades Faulkner-McCullers territory and makes it her own. There are a few visual and character cliches, and we wish that, just once in movies, a fortune teller's dire prophecy would not automatically come true. But the folks here believe in its power, and they compel the viewer to abandon skepticism, to hide with Eve in the Batiste closet, where skeletons whisper vengeance...
Holland has none of the natural genius of a filmmaker like Jane Campion, and Washington Square has little of the daring or visual audacity of Campion's own James adaptation, last year's grievously ignored Portrait of a Lady. At the same time, Holland's straightforward storytelling may give audiences more access into James than Campion's almost frightening originality...
...store features the "full surround room," decorated with hip urban graffiti, where customers can sit on a couch and enjoy the visual and sound quality of the store's DVD system...
...developing a deep understanding of the masterpieces and their creators. He presented these works to us, the public, in his own inimitable fashion so we could experience some of the emotions and the supernatural insight of genius. But who remains willing to sit, without the help of a single visual effect, and actually listen for more than five minutes to music that could transport him to uncharted intellectual and emotional worlds? The art of listening, of individual reasoning, of simple concentration is almost dead. Does classical music have any relevance in our society, or have we entered a new Dark...
This fall, the Brattle showcases Godard's visual masterpieces every Thursday night, offering up a feast of his experiments in spastic editing, hand-held shots, and stories about outsiders who pop up in each others' lives like secret figures in video games. The repertoire ranges from gangster spoof to existentialist poem. Breathless, Alphaville, Weekend, Contempt and Pierrot le Fou, among Godard's most famous films, are all featured, in addition to many of his lesser known works...