Word: witch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Residents of Burkittsville, Md., tired of Blair Witch Project fanatics stealing stuff from their town have told producers to shoot the sequel somewhere else. The film will open in theaters...
...This sense of distance is taken up within the piece by a floating sphere, which also tracks the house, dropping periodically in and out of our vision. Inside the silvery ball, like the Good Witch of the North, lives a small woman. She is born at the beginning of the piece as a bubble of water from the mouth of one of the Wilsons, a mouth that sucks her back...
...films' tone varied: they could teach with a smile, a scowl or a sneer. Some had progressive messages, favoring family planning, opposing witch hunts and racial prejudice. Others could leave lasting scars. Sid Davis' socio-splatter movies often ended in violent death, simply because a boy had driven too fast or hitched a ride with a homosexual. In Davis' babes-in-bandage Live and Learn, kids get impaled on scissors, blinded by BB blasts, or run over while playing baseball on the street. If only they'd watched this movie...
...will make it to the ring in yours. Movies that once were judged by normal artistic criteria are now valued by the amount of money they make over a weekend. For your horrified amusement, see if you can dig up a print of something called Scream or The Blair Witch Project...
...scheme of things, a little like the toys the kids got under the tree last week--Easter Island offers what humanity has always relied on: petroglyphs and taboos and ways of peopling the dark. You walk here through a landscape of atavistic myth, in what can seem a Blair Witch island. Winds from Antarctica roar over broken stone heads and toppled statues in the bare earth. In the local church, the Virgin Mary is a staring-eyed moai, and the baptismal font sits atop a carved head. "Y2K," in the blustery quiet, sounds a lot like "Why today...