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...profile of Greta Garbo in February's Vanity Fair, which focused mainly on the years of her reclusion in a New York penthouse, revealed among other things that the withered beauty kept a dozen Russ Tolls under her divan, which she arranged daily in various tableaux. Apparently, she just wanted to be left alone...with her trolls...
These (admittedly unrepresentative) mini-tableaux provide an accounting of much of American history as well as contemporary snapshots. Beyond that, they also provide the underlying reason for the enduring need to make a public, legal affirmation which a wedding ceremony provides--our faith in new beginnings...
With The Black Rider, Wilson reveals that he is not only a high-minded mystifier but a real, low-down entertainer. In Wilson's theater, ideas are pictures. He lights his tableaux with hallucinatory intensity, populating them with actors, all in white makeup, who move with a combination of stiffness and grace. His performers enact archetypes rather than characters, using stylized gestures and movements out of his globe trotter's trunk. In the past, watching a Wilson event has sometimes been like finding yourself in a dream you want to -- but can't -- get out of. Here, given the fairy...
...moviegoers. Anyone can appreciate the splendor of the theatrical pageantry or the dagger eyes of Gong Li as a dragon lady whose only commandment is survival. The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions of the People's Republic, vibrant popular art like this can emerge...
Murger's novel was originally published as a series of anecdotal sketches for the comic magazine Le Corsaire in 1845, and "La Vie de Boheme" is faithful to the novel in at least this respect: it seems like a series of loosely connected episodes, and of photographic tableaux. In fact, the film's only logic is visual, tracing the progression of the seasons and the alternation of night and day in the changing contours of the urban landscape. Cinematographer Timo Salminen has done some brilliant work, coaxing charm aplenty from the city of light (and, in this case, shadow) without...