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...Pope? With Bacon there's never one answer. His great gift was for conflation, visual and psychological, for compressing multiple possibilities into a single sliding form. From a 19th century photograph by Eadweard Muybridge he could take the squatting silhouette of a man and dissolve it within the outlines of a crouching boy attributed to Michelangelo. He could borrow the eyeglasses from a famous shot of a screaming nurse in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and perch them on a Pope's nose. In the same way, the meaning of his screaming Pontiff in Head VI fluctuates. Trapped...
...make this 18th century romp any more successful, nor will it evoke any more sympathy for its wronged society beauty than it would for anyone else in her beautifully jeweled silk shoes. “The Duchess” has a lot working in its favor, including strong performances, visual delights, and a moving score. However, the movie as a whole is less than the sum of its parts. While it’s not expected for a period drama to be mind-blowingly original, it should have something that makes it at least appear different. Moments...
...months to myself. I went to London and worked as a secretary and saved my money, and then I drove a camper van around Europe for two months before I went to Harvard. 5. FM: What was your concentration? CD: I was a joint concentrator in Social Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies. 6. FM: Not your typical pre-professional route.CD: My sister was very interested in fiction film and she was already a joint English and VES major. I was more interested in documentary film, and anthropology was a way to do both because I could do a thesis...
...Yuma, the sullen sweep of Brad Pitt's Jesse James epic, the deranged energy of Sukiyaki Western Django, to name just three oaters from last year. But in its fidelity to western verities, Appaloosa may seem radical to today's viewers. At a time when images in all visual media bombard the brain, the western - the one original American film form - moves at the pensive pace of a European art film...
...Hours - especially in the first 25 minutes, as Hélene hosts the family on one last bucolic weekend - is luxuriating in the milk bath of the film's good taste. I mean not just the lovely home with its period armoires and vases, but the full banquet of visual and aural felicities: the pretty grandchildren, the easy eloquence of the conversation, the Saint-Saens symphony of duck calls and birdsong, the perfect spiderweb of sunlight through the trees, which almost requires use of the word "dappled...