Sunshine Daydream, With Pointed Point of View
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âSmiley Face,â about a pot-addled would-be actress stumbling through a long, weird day in Los Angeles, is a contradiction in terms: a âstonerâ comedy with a purpose.
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There is something wonderful about being 35,000 feet in the air, looking down on the earth, that gives an artist a new perspective.
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âCassandraâs Dream,â Woody Allenâs latest excursion to the dark side of human nature, is good enough that you may wonder why he doesnât just stop making comedies once and for all.
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Sometimes, when you're living through an event, you can be too close to what's happening to realize the magnitude of it.
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Heliodisplay projects a convincing mid-air display.
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Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way).
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Fluid motion and  glorious colors provide a visual treat in Jiang Wen&#39;s sumptuous  romantic fantasy &quot;The Sun Also Rises,&quot; which screened in  competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
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The DVD of the highly conceptual romantic comedy "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" handsomely conveys the film's light, watercolor tones and inventive use of surround sound.
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Oh, the light! The autumn light! Is there anything more glorious than an October day, awash in the sun's low-slung amber rays?
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âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
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Bright Eyes principal Conor Oberst delivered a finished album to his label last February with an eye on a summer release, but then he had other ideas.
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Get to know the world - its people, food, interests, music and spirit - all in a day.
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This sweet-natured coming-of-age story manages a neat trick in our increasingly ``edge&#39;&#39;-obsessed television world: It&#39;s old-fashioned without seeming irrelevant.
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âStep Up 2 the Streetsâ posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichÃ©s arenât clichÃ©s.
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These are hopeful times for those who like to think the prospects of life elsewhere are good.
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Are we living at a moment when yesterday's ideas about the future are more attractive than our own?
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Little Miss Sunshine makes fun of self-help gurus, beauty pageants, Proust and other wide targets