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...that horrible image behind us, I’ll move on to another pedigreed work of lofty repute, Dogville, which is coming to Boston sometime early in April. The high-wattage attention Nicole Kidman brings to this project will make it bound for the kind of mainstream controversy Lars von Trier’s past work has generally avoided with low-key casting. But as the movie features no intercalary song-and-dance numbers to revivify his Dogme formula, I’m not expecting anything vastly different from his previous similarly themed films—which I don?...
...Charlie Kaufman (“I can see your sadness” ranks as 2002’s dumbest line not written by George Lucas). I’ll probably also skip Dogville, because I’m not inclined to check out another Von Trier, even if he’s spinning Our Town. If I have to watch a Dogme man reinterpret Thornton Wilder, I’ll wait for Thomas Vinterberg to take a deranged stab at The Matchmaker...
Since the initial recognition of her talents at age nineteen by Riccardo Muti, Bartoli has ascended into the ranks of the most skilled and sought-after mezzo-soprani in the world. Her early career established her reputation with collaborations with such musical luminaries as Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She has since worked with such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, Christopher Hogwood, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, and Sir Simon Rattle to name...
...work made Ted a nice living, and allowed him a surprising creative latitude, but toward the end of the 30s he was itching to expand. He wrote his first book for kids: "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," the story of a baby von Munchausen who devises whoppers as he strolls home. His big early success was with "Horton Hatches the Egg," the 1940 parable of an elephant who sits on a bird's egg for 51 weeks until, when the chick hatches, it has four legs and a trunk - an elephant bird. ("Horton" was made...
King--horror author, screenwriter, jack-of-all-'fraids--based his new creation in part on the acclaimed Danish mini-series The Kingdom, by filmmaker Lars von Trier, and in part on his own long hospitalization after he was struck and nearly killed by a van in 1999. The resulting series is sometimes, draggily and dully, just what you would expect from King. Artist Peter Rickman (Jack Coleman) sees grim visions after a paralyzing accident takes him to the hospital, founded on the site of an 1869 mill fire that killed scores of child laborers. But it is also sometimes fresh...