Word: tableaux
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...artgoing public might admire his output, despite or because of his "primitivism," but even his biggest fans were disconcerted that a minor civil servant could rise to such heights. Some said he painted "without thinking," others claimed he worked under spirit guidance. In fact, he put together his dramatic tableaux using photographs, postcards, book and magazine illustrations, and drawings of plants or scenes he made on the spot. Stories of life in the bloodthirsty wild were popular in his day, and the source material on show includes an album he owned called Wild Beasts with "around 200 amusing illustrations...
...Rowling is trotting out the fan favorites--your Tonks, your Luna, your Buckbeak, your Fred and George--for a final sunlit outing before chaos overtakes Harry. Having carefully built a cozy fictional universe over five previous books, Rowling has the task of tearing it apart, and there are several tableaux of genuinely surreal horrors, including a vicious werewolf (not at all cuddly like Lupin). The book ends with a shockingly violent reversal that permanently and painfully alters the fixed stars of Harry's life. Which is to say that once again, somebody dies...
...dreams, recounted by Freudians in the city where he practiced. Some are chillingly literal and hint of worse horrors yet to come: one woman, speaking in German of a pleasure jaunt, appears to mention Dachau, where the Nazis built a concentration camp. Most striking, however, are the wordless tableaux: the supple blond man who, with boots on his hands, gracefully mimes both partners in an act of love; the soldiers who maintain a drumming kick step even when facedown on the floor; the snow that sifts to earth as Europe spins toward war. In Vienna, the delights are unearthly...
...Occasionally these stoned tableaux are lightened by intrusions of real-world comedy: the visit of a Yellow Pages ad salesman to a stoned Blake; the door-to-door missionary zeal of two young Mormons. Ricky Jay provides a few moments of irrelevant coherence with his story of a magician named Chung Ling Su. But these interludes can't bring Last Days to life. The film is so studied and self-conscious that the audience can never concentrate on Blake; it can only watch the camera watching...
...notion of our random interconnectedness perverted into a chilling precept of horror. Shimizu makes the most of this, generating tension and genuine terror with a slow, sweeping camera that seems to glide across the traditional Japanese interiors with neither rhyme nor reason; he uses frequent long takes with symbolic tableaux in the foreground and complex interactions occurring in the background. Shimizu takes this potent philosophical notion and maximizes it’s potential for a startling filmic effect; at least, for the first 30 minutes...