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Hidden depths, to be sure. In his finest pieces, Messiaen came closer to articulating the profound horror and supernal beauty of his times than anyone else. The colossal Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum, for wind and percussion (1964), may be the most explicit example of his penchant for the ineffable, but the composer's acute sensitivity to the human condition is found in more intimate pieces as well. Chief among these, and his most famous work, is the Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (1941), for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, a moving confessional made all the more poignant...
...watching people on the big screen is more you speed, head to Loews Theater, on Church St. This six-screen theater shows all the mainstream highbrow movies as well as a rowdy showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" on Friday and Saturday nights. The Janus Theater, on JFK Street, has only one screen. This makes for a limited selection but a cozier atmosphere...
Like a superhero for cinema, Batman Returns arrives in the nick of time. Movies are in big trouble. The magic is gone; the danger is missing. Genres that vitalized the box office a decade ago -- the sci-fi epic, the horror movie, the adult comedy -- look sapped. Top directors like Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese remake their own or other people's movies. So does everybody else. Lethal Weapon 3 and Patriot Games and Sister Act may bring millions into a cool theater on a hot evening, but are audiences getting the fresh kick that good films are supposed...
...independence-minded regions of the former Yugoslavia, hope has evaporated that sanity will prevail. The toll is terrible: more than 12,000 people dead, tens of thousands missing and wounded, 1.5 million men, women and children forced to flee their homes. Those numbers only begin to hint at the horror, which U.S. Secretary of State James Baker characterized two weeks ago as a "humanitarian nightmare...
...late-night circuit, and soon much of the auteur's awful oeuvre was available on videocassette. Now Wood, anonymous in life, is notorious in death. He wrote but did not direct Orgy of the Dead; yet the video box ballyhoos it as "Ed Wood Jr.'s Masterpiece of Erotic Horror -- from the Creator of Plan 9 from Outer Space...