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Them’s the fightin’ words on the puzzlingly-titled “Oh Bondage, Up Yours,” a show curated by Martin Maloney, a visiting lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies. Now, don’t get excited—the title is rather misleading. In fact, as I walked into the show’s first installment, in Adams House, I heard another viewer exclaim, “There’s no bondage in this at all!” Alas, it’s true. The show seems to have very...
...offering is the first broad survey in art history since Literature and Arts B-10, Art and Visual Culture: Introduction to the Historical Study of Art and Architecture was discontinued three years ago. Students had complained that this course was overly theoretical and didn’t spend enough time on individual examples...
...director of this noble weepie, Nelson so overuses visual tricks--zooms, zip pans and multiple perspectives on a simple scene--that she turns the viewer into an exasperated parent; this is a directorial style in need of a spanking. As co-writer, she falls into the truckling-and-treacling mode evident in her script work on Stepmom and The Story of Us. But, lordie, does I Am Sam open the tear ducts! Movie theaters may have to install sluice gates, thanks to Penn's solid, precise and brave performance and his warming kinship with Fanning. He makes the film...
...knew of Kandahar; few cared about the ravages of civil war and Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Now the world sees the news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged men scrambling to retrieve prostheses...
...knew of Kandahar; few cared about the ravages of civil war and Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Now the world sees the news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged men scrambling to retrieve prostheses...