Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...bunch up on-screen. The point that we're all human has been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which, for 25 minutes, what appears to be a single housefly (actually there were several) is photographed at close range navigating the body of a naked woman. Even when the bug inspects the woman's lips, busies itself at her nipple or ventures between her legs, she's as motionless as a guard at Buckingham Palace. Whatever else Fly might be, it's a weirdly absorbing encounter between...
...18th century fireplace design (shallower, built to throw more heat back into the room) helps a bit, but the basic idea remains Paleolithic. There have been times during subzero winter power blackouts when we have pulled a futon next to the fire and slept there, curled up as close as we could get to the heat without igniting the blankets. On the other hand, the wood stove in the kitchen radiates efficient gemutlichkeit--a cloying heat, like the house on a Thanksgiving afternoon that has gone on too long...
...volcano on one of the Canary Islands could fall into the ocean, creating a giant wave that would annihilate large swaths of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. "If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news," said Dr. Simon...
...September, the race was too close to call. Feeling stymied and outspent, the typically blunt-spoken Gorton believes the occasion actually calls for campaign-finance deregulation. "In a race like this, I should be able to raise more than $1,000 per individual," he says. "Especially individuals from Microsoft...
Bedazzled, a Faust farce directed by Harold Ramis, is quite close in silhouette to the Peter Cook-Dudley Moore Bedazzled of 1967--with the petty distinction that the old film was funny, the new one mostly not. A lonely dweeb (Brendan Fraser) is so desperate to win the affections of a co-worker (Frances O'Connor) that he signs a pact with the Horned One (Elizabeth Hurley) that offers him seven shots at ecstasy for his puny little soul. Alas, the skitcom format soon becomes tiresome; comic inventiveness should have been Ramis' first wish...