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...represent the second rank of world directors. The names Michael Haneke and Hiner Saleem, Hou Hsaio-hsien and Wang Xiaoshuai, the Dardenne brothers and the Larrieu brothers, may not light up the marquee in your movie awareness. The prospect a new Lars von Trier (Manderlay, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe and Danny Glover) may make you squirm...
...when people recognize the voice--but can't quite put a name to it. Odd but true, according to a study that will appear in the Journal of Consumer Research later this year. Researchers studied reactions to TV commercials with actors David Duchovny, Donald Sutherland, David Hyde Pierce and Willem Dafoe voicing pitches for Sprint, Volvo, Lipton and Qwest, respectively. The commercial watchers' prior attitudes toward the celebrity influenced how much they liked or disliked the brand, but surprisingly, the celebrity endorsements evoked stronger feelings for the brand when viewers weren't sure to whom the familiar voice belonged...
...plies." L.A. does move, notably in a brutal, bloated car-chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty The French Connection. In his God's-eye-view shots and acrobatic love scenes, he also pays tribute to the styles of Martin Scorsese and MTV. So the villain, Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe, is no more rotten or less picturesque than the hero, William Petersen. So everybody stinks. It matters not when, like Friedkin, you have fashioned a fetid movie hybrid: Miami Vile...
...generation came along to scribble on blank slates. That was how it felt when Basquiat's bright, hectic canvases started appearing. In Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, an '82 picture in the Brooklyn show, he applied broad washes of pigment in a way that suggests a cross between Willem de Kooning's surfs of color and any kid's finger paintings. The boy is then built up out of a host of ragged gestures. Basquiat may not have been trained in academic drawing, but at least in his first years, he could mark a canvas in interesting ways...
Thursday, February 24. An evening with filmmaker Willem de Rooij. 6 P.M. Reception to follow. Carpenter Center...