Word: savonarolas
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Oliver Stone is a muckraker disguised as a moviemaker. He concocts films?Midnight Express, Scarface and Year of the Dragon as a screenwriter, Salvador and now Platoon as writer-director?whose blood vessels burst with holy indignation. And he gets money for his Savonarola sermons because he films them for peanuts: $5 million for Salvador, $6 million for Platoon. This new one is an up-tempo dirge, an I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, about his experiences as a young grunt in Viet Nam. Stone means the drama, the carnage, the horror, the horror...
...blood test: if yours didn't heat up at his take on racial tensions, you probably needed a transfusion. Looking at five of his films (Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Clockers, Crooklyn) years later, though, one can see the camera stylist behind the street-corner Savonarola. Sure, he editorializes with nearly every shot, but he's also a clever fellow at framing the action and getting sharp turns from lots of terrific actors. This joint's worth dropping into...
...work from a private collection in New York. It also boasts Filippino's naturalistic Portrait of a Musician, an intense and pensive study of an instrumentalist surrounded by the paraphernalia of his art. One of the most interesting sections of the exhibition examines the influence on the artists of Savonarola, the apocalyptic preacher of the 1490s who organized the Bonfires of the Vanities, in which many famous Renaissance works of art were destroyed. It features Botticelli's only signed and dated painting, Mystic Nativity, from the National Gallery in London, and commissions Filippino painted for Savonarola's most powerful follower...
Sarah Duant will be discussing her novel Birth of Venus. This historical fiction combines sacrifice and betrayal during Florence’s captivity under Savonarola to create a fascinating and intriguing story. Amanda Foreman has described Birth of Venus as “a tour de force”. 7 p.m. Wordsworth Books, Cambridge...
That world is full of dangers. Charles VIII of France is preparing to march on the city. The fanatical monk Savonarola is raging from the pulpit against lust and luxury. His religious police, a kind of Christian Taliban, will soon be enforcing godliness with a cudgel, punishing sodomists and chasing women indoors. The turmoil outside interests Alessandra, but what really absorbs her is the young painter her father has brought from Northern Europe to decorate the family chapel. For a while you wonder if this mysterious stranger will somehow turn out to be Albrecht Durer, who ventured to Italy--though...