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...Bears took a one-goal lead into the third that night and, just as happened two years ago, Harvard knotted it before the final frame was half...
...Oscar for his evocative vision of a treacherously seductive Hollywood, where amidst the magazine-gloss sheen, two people who seek moral truths are engulfed in the process. Lynch concocts an enveloping sense of foreboding, lingering his camera even as the characters have moved well beyond the scope of the frame. The film’s emotional weight seems almost secondary to unraveling its Mobius strip plot, but repeated viewings uncover a tremendous gravitas in Naomi Watt’s alternately enchanting and harrowing performance. Tickets $7.50. 7 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
...Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists the help of the eponymous triplets—former scat singers turned household-item instrumentalists—in liberating Champion from the clutches of a diminutive wine magnate. A marvelous fusion of color, music, and caricature, each splendid offbeat frame restores faith in traditional hand-drawn animation, and we have Chomet’s superbly macabre imagination to thank...
Ever since a bitter debate over stem-cell research erupted in the summer of 2001, the mainstream press has tended to frame the controversy as a latter-day Scopes Trial—a conflict between religious zealots on one side and proponents of scientific rationalism on the other. And, to be sure, many people’s opposition to such research is an understandable function of their faith. Yet while the media are loath to acknowledge it, there is also a very solid case against stem-cell research based not in religiosity, but in logic and simple moral reasoning...
...with just two weeks to prepare for the NCAA tournament, a time frame in which Jantzen has finished in third the past two years, he has become more focused then ever. Maybe if he completes his longtime goal and secures a national championship he’ll open up and start to celebrate a bit more. But then again, maybe he won’t. After all, he’s not your everyday athlete...