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...acclaim of Griffith's masterwork made his virulent, derisive depiction of blacks all the more toxic - indeed, potentially epidemic. This was not simply a racist film; it was one whose brilliant storytelling technique lent plausibility and poignancy to images of crude Negroes in the Reconstruction Senate, and of a black man pursuing a white woman until, to save her virginity, she throws herself off a cliff. Viewers could believe that what they saw was not only historically but emotionally true. "Birth" not only taught moviegoers how to react to film narrative but what to think about blacks...
...second disc hearkens back to their previous effort, the masterwork concept album Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory. The second disc contains the title track of the album, and that’s it. Over 40 minutes long and divided into eight sections, it includes an overture with a full orchestra. “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” is an intense musical experience of the typical Dream Theater variety that deals with the phenomenon of inner anguish and turmoil in today’s seemingly content youth...
...near namesake son restore the dynasty despite losing the popular vote to a populist from Tennessee. Now comes something even more exciting for his reputation: America's most beloved biographer, David McCullough, has plucked Adams from the historical haze, as he did Harry Truman, and produced another masterwork of storytelling that blends colorful narrative with sweeping insights...
...folly or masterpiece, the French comix artist Stéphane Heuet has decided to adapt Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Proust's masterwork, a seven-volume, 4000-plus page French novel published between 1913 and 1922 will become twelve comicbook volumes published between 1998 and perhaps 2020. The first of these has now been translated into English (NBM Publishing, $19.95, hardcover...
...Several of today's most prominent filmmakers betray the influence of Buñuel. David Lynch's radically bizarre first feature, "Eraserhead," couldn't have existed without the example of Buñuel's rulebreaking Surrealist masterwork "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), directed with Salvador Dali. Pedro Almodovar's deliciously ripe melodramas contain numerous elements first found in Buñuel's Mexican work from the 1950s; in fact, key sequences from Buñuel's giddily psychotic "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz" (1955) are incorporated into Almodovar's "Live Flesh" (1997). And former Monty Python member Terry...