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...suggested putting PBH-like structures in smaller universities and community colleges. "Do it within institutions rather than adding extra cost," he said. "This is a wondrous and important vision, but it seems to me important that it's done comprehensively and in a quality of fashion so as not to discourage itself...
...DIRECTOR CALLS THE SHOTS; THE cinematographer shows you the light. In VISIONS OF LIGHT, a superb documentary by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels, directors of photography are revealed as painters on film, Rembrandts with an Arriflex. The movie blends clips from Hollywood's wondrous black-and-white era with reflections by such modern masters as Michael Chapman ("A cinematographer's job is to tell people where to look"), Allen Daviau ("What's important are the lights that you don't turn on") and Conrad Hall ("There's a language far more complex than words"). If only the vast...
...film art, Qiu Ju is no match for the wondrous Red Lantern. But as a rare glimpse into the last communist monolith, it has the fascination of an individual's -- and a People's -- tragedy...
...star acts illustrate the show's underlying theme: family. Twin sisters Sarah and Karyne Steben -- Sharon Stone in duplicate on the high bar -- perform their mirror-image calisthenics in a space as intimate as the womb. The brothers Marco and Paulo Lorador bend their Apollonian physiques to some wondrous heavy lifting. And the Tchelnokovs (Nikolai, his wife Galina Karableva and their impossibly lithe son Anton, 7) describe patterns of living sculpture that are less physical than mystical. In the harmonious flow of their fearless feats, these performers might be parents and siblings from another, ideal world, where beauty is based...
Collaboration at this level, with this kind of intensity, imparts its own reciprocal coloration. If Lanois gave these disparate artists a certain sympathetic unity of sound, he took from them a kind of thematic restlessness and artistic recklessness. He then applied those qualities to Acadie (1989), his wondrous first solo album as songwriter, singer and guitarist. They are in even more abundant supply here. For the Beauty of Wynona -- named for a Canadian town close to where Lanois grew up -- has a tougher rhythmic core than its predecessor. The title track takes off on a wild excursion from ballad...