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 Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:48 pm |
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I haven't seen the recent _Beowulf_ or _Polar Express_
(or the Linklater films) which use animation to
decorate the human characters. But maybe Neil
Jordan's _The Company of Wolves_ has perfected
the techniqe of putting post modern, self-conscious,
knowing, subversive "quotes" around not just the
human character, but every tree, very animal, every
inanimate object. Everything looks slightly false
in a fairy tale book or glittering Christmas decoration
sort of way -- it must be somelow tech camera trick
but I can't say I've seen it anywhere else. The low
cost, "bad" special effects about werewolves only
enhance the atmosphere. The stories are deliberately
flimsy except for the underlying red riding hood thread
(pulled together by Angela Landsbury telling stories),
but the overall effect is just mesmerizing.
I wish I can think of something good to say about
_In Dreams_, but I could barely pay any attention
to it the second time I see it after the excellent,
emotioning opening where Annette Benning loses
her child. Someone in the studios try to make it
_Se7en_ mixed with _Nightmare on Elm Street_.
I care for neither of those, anyway.
I've been staying at a few hotels and find myself
glued to TNT's police procedurals. The old "Law
and Order" reruns are still so watchable, when they
had Richard Brook or Jill Henessy playing the
assistant to the ADA and the conscience of the
show. After 9/11 many of these shows have taken
a vigilante turn. ("CSI Miami," slickly produced
and completely pornographic in its adulation of
gun-toting, suspect-executing crime-scene lab
personnel, is needless to say the most despicable
show in the history of television.) It is amazing
how many episodes of Law and Order reruns you
watch if you are lying sick in bed in a hotel.
The other show I've taken a huge liking to is
"The Closer" starring a wonder Kyra Sedgwick
as an ex-CIA interrogator from Georgia transplanted
to LA. The interactions between her and her team
is just marvellous (especially in te season 1 episode
where everyone compares their single-minded
chief to the autistic child witness she's holding hostage
while trying to solve her crime. A Colombo for our
age indeed. |
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