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...FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING It's a fantasy based on a famous series of novels.. a film of eye-popping grandeur and sumptuous production values...and, unlike the recent Harry Potter event, it's a good movie too. In the first of a Tolkien film trilogy, director Peter Jackson lays out the Middle Earth adventure with epic brio. This solid, often stirring version stops just this side of enthrallment. But then, the grand journey has just begun...
worst music | Michael Jackson It was supposed to be the new, relevant M.J., but Invincible arrived with the same shots at the paparazzi, cheesy rap cameos and creepy children's choirs in the background that marked his decline. Jackson did break some ground, shattering the record for artistic egomania by holding two tribute concerts to himself in September...
...middlebrow passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre since Susan Sontag met Godzilla. He is suspicious of art that claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior." He tells the story of a friend who painted a mock Pollock at his surfer...
...JACKSON DYKMAN has spent the past few months creating those incredibly detailed and informative maps charting the war in Afghanistan that appear each week in TIME. This week he took on a new challenge: visually representing the invention of the moment, the highly anticipated scooter known as Ginger. Chat with him live on Wednesday...
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring December 19 No introduction is required for this giant-budget production of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epochal first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. New Line Cinema and director Peter Jackson took a huge gamble when they decided to film all three books back-to-back over a grueling 18 months of production, with a rumored $300 million budget and a juicy Christmas release for the films over a period of three years. With no major stars (does anyone remember Elijah Wood?) and a premise that is decidedly...