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• r s m only the beautiful need apply a t ... H f | . here is a short list of near perfec Set in New York (need I even say it), “Bringing Out the After last week’s “Fight Club,” a seemingly endless strear American filrr Dead” is the story of EMS paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas makers. It’s not that every film they make is of creativity, it is interesting to see a master at work again Cage) haunted by the death of Rose. Rose was an 18-year-old Sure, Fight Club” director David Fincher employed man perfect, but that they are incapable of mak­ homeless girl that died while he was trying to treat her. Frank ing an uninteresting film. This list would techniques like CGI and subliminal superimpositions to grea tries to use his work to get beyond his grief — “Help others effect, but Scorsese just shames him, and without sacrificinj include directors like Spike Lee and John and you help yourself,” he tries to convince himself. But late­ character for style. Sayles, both hot off exemplary works ly, all of his patients seem to die on him. Nothing in the production notes say anything about it, bu (“Summer of Sam” and “Limbo” respective­ Then Frank actually saves the life of an old man. He it looks like one scene was acted out backwards, then playec ly). At the front of the line, however, is befriends his daughter, an ex-junkie named Mary (hmm...), backwards so as to create a bizarre vision of the world it Martin Scorsese. He never quits making played by Patricia Arquette. But the old man doesn’t want to motion. He also uses fast motion during many of the ambu­ challenging and innovative films. live. Frank can hear his thoughts. The man doesn’t like being lance rides to show the near psychedelic world Frank is falling His latest effort, “Bringing Out the brought back to life 17 times in one night. Frank is also tor­ into. Dead,” is no exception, of course. Even mented by a crazy street character, Noel (musician Marc more interesting, this film seems As usual, Scorsese’s use of music is nothing short of bril- to represent the furthest distilling ‘Bringing Out the Dead’ is a wonderful addition to modem film art... o’“* But, Hke, his them,es of the themes that Scorsese has ocorsese doesnt just repla toyed with over the last 30 years. Guilt and the tried and true, he build Anthony), who is begging for someone to kill him. on his technique. In the past, he has used pop music for iron redemption have never more clearly been at Scorseses tone of storytelling shifts between the meditat- ic effect, as in “Mean Streets,” “Goodfellas,” and “Casino, the heart of a Scorsese film. While this ed pace of his last film, “Kundun,” and the blisteringly fast But he has generally stayed with older music, like the musii doesn’t necessarily yield a better film, within pace of GoodfeUas. It creates an interesting effect, constant- of the ’40s to the 70s. 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Glassbox consists of an eclectic group of five artists stations, intending to show America’s commercialization, Shedden’s use of rugs was very clever; there is really no who met at the Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beaux- which some believe to be spreading through France like use for carpets other than to make us feel better and give Arts in Paris. Spawned from a statewide program called a virus. Below each normal photo is a gas station that, us some kind of mental and physical support. Here, the Cote Ouest, Glassbox is a traveling exhibition in a series looks as though it is encased in wood — to preserve the .carpets have minds of their own and I appreciated the called Global Motion. The emphasis of Glassbox is exper­ old stations as pieces of a world past. My personal' distinct feelings that Shedden gave to both. imental art, both animated and still. Attempting to show thoughts were not on gas stations in France, but ones While the works of Glassbox-affiliate Stefan Nikolaev “transparent” feeling, the exhibit taps into the number of closer to home. Though the gas stations were rusted and aren’t on exhibit in the CCS gallery — they’re in the emotions that go through today’s young artists. empty, there was something appealing about them. Such Contemporary Arts Forum — his works contribute to Sandie Tourle’s piece “Murder at Walmart” showed a common sight for myself, being from Los Angeles, I Glassbox’s conversation-starting feel. His video-based this perhaps too clearly. Tourle, a native of work, “Pall Mall,” uses a different type of medium“ Zimbabwe, bought all of the materials for the |n th is world where everything, from silverware to people, seems to be plastic, we to show a piece that apparently lives and changes, piece from Walmart, including small, almost sometimes lose touch with what is real though it actually does not. It is a video of a man childlike wooden houses, knee-high plastic smoking, looking straight into the camera. Christmas trees and a rubber deer intended to improve Nikolaev is dealing with the passage of time and our archery skills. The irony of this two-legged Bambi is that never really gave a damn about gas stations that were out power to instigate change. In the beginning, I. felt frus­ it is bought to be repeatedly killed. Behind the deer is of business. But after looking at them, I liked the way trated with this piece. Later, when I was taking alast look brick wallpaper, which Tourle explained is the dead end. Tabuchi had preserved them in wood. There was defi­ at it, I talked it over with another onlooker. We began W hat struck me was that everything, from the trees and nitely a story to these places where all cars must stop discussing it, and in contrast to the lack of motion in the the houses to the fence and the deer, was fake. In this, sooner or later. I had never before seen a study of these piece, conversation began with a s,tranger. Not all works world where everything, Bom silverware to people, pieces of Americana. have the ability to stimulate conversation, but these, seems to be plastic, we sometimes lose touch with what UK-born Gemma Shedden presented an untitled, ranging from the plastic world of Tourle to the motion­ is real. I thought of the word “plastics” in “The site-specific work composed of two rugs, one of which is less world of Nikolaev, certainly do.

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