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...Spider Woman, which retells the story of Manuel Puig's novel and the noted film. The new version comes from a North American cast and creators, headed by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb and director Harold Prince -- the makers of Cabaret, which Kiss often recalls in its silvery visual shimmer, sexual ambiguity, bursts of surreality and blend of grim politics and show-biz glitter. But unlike Cabaret, which used a Berlin nightclub for satiric comment on the rise of the Nazis, Kiss looks to shadowy passages from old movies for sentimental uplift. They suggest that art, more than life...
...central visual image of this season's most eagerly awaited American play is a towering wall, like the facade of some Greek Revival government colossus, with two jagged cracks running from top to bottom. Before a word is spoken, this symbol -- with its promise of that facade's eventually cracking wide open -- conveys the aura of physical decay and revolutionary social change that drives Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hr. epic about AIDS, gay liberation and the breakdown of the Reagan era's sanctimonious hypocrisy...
Harvard Film Archive. Archangel at 3p.m. Van der Keuken Films #1 at 4:45 p.m. Vermontis For Lovers at 7:30 p.m. with John O'Brien inperson. Vand der Keuken Films #4 at 9:30 p.m.Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. $4 forstudents and seniors; $5 for general admission.$6.50 for in-person specials...
Harvard Film Archive. Archangel at 4:30p.m. Premiere of Face Value at 7 p.m. Van derKeuken Films #2 at 9:30 p.m. Carpenter Center forthe Visual Arts. $4 for students and seniors; $5for general admission...
Likewise, the film itself comments on the very process of filmmaking. The aesthetic of Coppola's Dracula reaches into the past for vintage camera tricks like motion reversal and in-camera multiple exposures, smoke and mirrors from a bygone era of cinema. Roman Coppola, cinema scion and visual effects director, explained, "There were a lot of Victorian parlor amusements that were optical tricks that developed into film. A lot of stage magicians were the first to buy projectors and cameras. Our inspiration was the fact that it would be unique to use techniques that are inexpensive and fresh and that...