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...another departure from previous Chinese cinematic practice, Zhang does not base his films on literature, but rather writes screenplays based on real-life. East Palace West Palace (1996) sprung from a newspaper clipping about police officers' interrogation of gay me. In all of his films, Zhang positions the marginalized of society at the focal point. Zhang argues that "by representing the marginal you get a better picture of society. It is through the marginal that the character of society emerges...
...Although the event was punctuated with songs from his previous albums, including the rarely performed "Whipping Boy," a little less than half was dedicated to material from Burn to Shine. The most promising song from the new album is without a doubt "The Woman in You." With sparse riffs suggestive of Hendrix's "Castles Made of Sand," the song is both a musical and lyrical delight. Here the brilliant Hendrix lyrics "and so castles made of sand fall into the sea...eventually" become equally brilliant as Harper sings in perpetual falsetto--"the woman in you is the worry...
...more about whack. You can't have missed Tuesday's and Wednesday's staged Last Supper in front of the Science Center. Publicity has been quite a point of contention for the show. Although now the campus is inundated with the slick, black, official posters for the show, the previous weeks' many teasers took on the Stations of the Cross, Harvard-style, making anyone walking around campus an unwitting pilgrim on a very postmodern Via Dolorosa. On one poster, Jesus pours himself a Slurpee; on another, he checks his email from a Science Center kiosk. The diners at the "Ultimate...
...Dogma's greatest shortcoming, however, is glaring: amateurish cinematography. Not one for lush visuals, Smith has never been overly concerned with the aesthetic aspect of movie making. Although inexpert camerawork is not only pardonable in his previous films, but also considered a Smith trademark, the home video ambiance just doesn't work in Dogma. With few action sequences and even fewer special effects, Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy didn't demand much camera movement (even Smith, before beginning work on Dogma, self-effacingly assured that he'd "move the camera this time.") The inconsistent camera angles are so vexing, they...
Nonetheless, Kerr's squad did register a 2-1 win over Columbia only a week after the Providence loss and could have looked to the strong performance to regain confidence lost in the previous week...