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...opposites,” says Tarik Umar ’10, one of Edwards’ former students. “But that’s where you can be most innovative and think in a realm most un-thought in.”“Idea Translation?? was the birthplace of MuseTrek, an application developed by Umar and Milo M. Harman ’08. Described by Edwards as a blend between YouTube and a Wikipedia devoted to art, MuseTrek—which has already undergone trial runs at the Fogg and the Louvre Museums?...
...Vendetta”) gives one of her most convincing performances as Anne Boleyn, the coy but spirited queen who eventually loses her grip on Henry VIII (Eric Bana, “Munich”). Mary, played by Scarlett Johansson (“Lost in Translation??), is Anne’s quiet and obedient younger sister—the other Boleyn girl—who goes unnoticed until the King brings her to court. For a story laced with courtly flirtations and extravagant revelry, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is unexpectedly dark. What is even...
...desperately blatant attempt to make this film appealing to American viewers, Barker has moved the story out of Wilde’s Victorian drawing rooms and into 1930s Italy. Also, the two lead female roles, Lady Erlynne and Meg Windemere (Scarlett Johansson, “Lost in Translation??) have been inexplicably rewritten as Americans. Barker also took the drastic step of substituting beautiful costumes for solid acting. The cast looks wonderful, but there is little substance. Additionally, while the Italian Riviera is a wonderful setting, the film’s color scheme is so dreadfully dreary that...
...course, the film puts the heaviest weight on Murray, and the actor is never quite invested enough in the performance to support it. In creating Zissou, Murray cleanly cuts out the weary heartache of Lost in Translation??s Bob Harris to offer a shell of a man too sterile and smarmy to lend any real gravitas to Zissou’s gradual realization of his own mid-life impotence...
...other hand, Best Actor seems like it will end in a photo finish, with Lost in Translation??s Bill Murray a nose ahead of Sean Penn. I personally felt Ben Kingsley had the performance of the year, and his visceral anguish in House of Sand and Fog was a masterfully controlled performance, especially when contrasted with Penn’s rather blunt stabs at the agony of child loss (slam table here, deliver choked up yelp there...