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...core existence of my outlook on humanitarian life can be equated to a Jedi philosophy,” Bolger said. “Star Wars transcends the traditional science fiction movie in the sense that it is not a fluff film, but rather it is an anthropological ethos and zeitgeist...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guided by The Force | 5/20/2005 | See Source »

...whim of the Zeitgeist. It is certainly a boon for critics looking for (or inventing) common threads in important films. But all three directors -and British director James Marsh, who has a much-noted feature shown out of competition -are investigating the pull of the raucous past on the calmer present. The films ask: What is identity? Are we the people we were or the ones we become? Can we ever escape our past, or can we only learn to live with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Diary VII: Out of the Past | 5/17/2005 | See Source »

...Maybe this year's Zeitgeist movie will be another Van Sant crypto-history, Last Days, with Michael Pitt as a doomed rock star in the mold of Kurt Cobain. A few days ago we heard an unsolicited rave on the film from Christopher Doyle, the Australian cinematographer and poet, who thinks Van Sant is one of the few directors today pushing toward a cinema of tomorrow. That recommendation would be enough to have us queueing for the film, if it weren't our job to see it and a hundred other "unmissables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Diary: Episode LVIII: A New Hope | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

...21st century, we're in trouble. The current decade doesn't even have a nickname (the zeros? the aughts? the uh-ohs?), let alone a cultural personality. And Hollywood isn't helping. The film industry, especially in the four-month peak-viewing period called summer, rarely tries squarely addressing Zeitgeist anxieties. Instead it ransacks its attic for sequels, spin-offs and, this year, remakes. You don't look forward to many of the new season's blockbuster hopefuls. You look backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once More, With Feeling | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

Black has two other, paradoxical sources of appeal in the current zeitgeist, one a celebration of convention and wealth, the other a manifesto of street-toughness and bohemian penury. In the age of Reagan, la-di-da formality has made big black limousines and black-tie soirees modish once again. Thus for the well-to-do, basic black is a means of ostentatious discretion. On the other hand, the angry black of the new wave--dark glasses, sour black T shirts and scruffy black jeans--is more the anarchist's traditional black. It is neo-beatnik, the color correlate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Allure of Darth Vaderism | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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