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...also drowning beneath the folds. While audiences will be captivated by the film’s languid, shadowy images and tortured characters, the overall effect is diluted by excessive length (158 minutes) and lack of development. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, known for “Brokeback Mountain?? and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” adapts Chinese author Eileen Chang’s eponymous short story with exquisite artistic balance, but the film’s visual density simply cannot compensate for its paucity elsewhere. Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Hong Kong during World...
...alert, ready to play as soon as the game stops for a whistle. In true Harvard spirit, the low brass especially keeps a keen eye out for the hand of the referee, ready to play the imposing theme from Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain?? whenever an opposing player takes a trip to the penalty box. Saxophones play a bagpipe tune, and the trumpets break into fanfares from a myriad of classical composers to rouse our team to even greater feats and higher scores...
...just as boring as its predecessor. “Taking the center from the margins” seems to be the raison d’être of several of the best films produced in culture-war-America over the past year, from the spectacular “Brokeback Mountain?? to the delightful “Little Miss Sunshine.” But director Steven Shainberg and screenwriter Erin Cressinda Wilson—the creative minds behind the charmingly idiosyncratic S&M romantic comedy “Secretary”—have taken the idea...
...seriously you allow yourself to take risks that you wouldn’t take otherwise. A lot of our best parts came from the speed-throughs—in one case, one of the actors decided to do a scene like it was from “Brokeback Mountain?? and he ended up sticking with the character that came...
...fragile creepiness, laden with nightmarish imagery and whispered ambiguities, Mark Linkous—the man behind the Sparklehorse curtain—can haunt with the best of them. In this sense, Sparklehorse’s latest album, “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain?? is more of the same—and, after a five-year hiatus, discovering more of the same was more than I could’ve asked for.Linkous’s drug problems—safely behind him, he assures reporters—are no secret...