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...video’s deepest flaw is its utter lack of plausibility; in the real world, everyone else depicted in the video would probably rather be caught dead than on camera dancing to her ABBA-sampling pop single, no matter its catchiness...
...great depths of emotion. In the movie’s closing minutes, Walt and his father share a heart-to-heart in a hospital room: Eisenberg communicates Walt’s shift from a doting to a profoundly disappointed son with the faintest alteration in voice and countenance. The camera is infrequently still in “Squid,” but when it does stop, it is usually on Eisenberg’s strangely affecting face. Some will complain that “Squid” ends too abruptly. The film’s conclusion certainly offers nothing resembling...
...these men, however, whose alienation stems in part from being faceless strangers in the crowd, Spritz is a celebrity. Like any average Joe, he’s constantly screwing up with his kids and wife, but these mistakes are all the more pathetic in light of his glib on-camera persona. Though the depressive aspect of Cage’s character risks monotony, Steve Conrad’s script puts him through a variety of humiliating encounters that bring out the more narcissistic and violent sides of Spritz’s madness. In this latest film, Gore Verbinski seems...
Haruki Murakami smiles at the camera with a discomfort that belies his popstar-like fame as one of Japan’s best-selling authors. His pop-culture rich novels featuring intelligent, urban, isolated characters have formed a new literary genre in Japan, its authors called “Murakami’s Children.” Harvard Professor of Japanese Literature Jay Rubin, who has translated several of Murakami’s books into English, poses alongside him. The two chat with each other in Japanese, attempting to dispel the awkward silence interrupted only by the sound...
...used to be a routine part of orientation. Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the University required new students to pose nude for “posture pictures” as part of the regular heath exam. Of the approximately 3,500 subjects who stripped down for the camera, those deemed to have poor posture were required to take a corrective health class, the New York Times Magazine reported in 1995. W.H. Sheldon, a Columbia University physique scholar, had sold the idea of “posture pictures” to all the Ivy League colleges. Sheldon believed that physical...