Thursday, January 3
The sort of okay one was Kate and Leopold, which would have benefitted from a little more complexity and a lot less Meg Ryan. Like none.
(Did I tell you how many years it took me to tell her and Melanie Griffith apart?)
Well, this weekend, things are finally getting rolling. The Man Who Wasn't There has come back, after what seemed like a one-day engagement at one theater in the north part of town. It's back at our local art film joint. The Royal Tennenbaums has also arrived, and since I thought the director's Rushmore was a winning, if flawed film, I'm looking forward to that. The Lord of the Rings has, of course, been here Since The Beginning, but I've not yet seen it - tomorrow is my day, going with David (who has not yet started back to school), for whom this will already be the fourth viewing.
Exhibit A:
The Sacred Mirrors series is a totally unique work of contemporary sacred art created by Alex Grey. This installation of 21 framed images, consisting of 19 paintings and two etched mirrors, examines the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in rich detail. Each painting presents a life-sized figure facing viewers and inviting them to mirror the images, creating a sense of seeing into oneself.
The life-sized representations of the human body, portraying its physical and energetic systems, are both rigorously precise and vividly visionary. The Sacred Mirrors dramatically reveal the miracle of life's evolutionary complexity, the unity of human experience across all racial, class and gender divides, and the astonishing vistas of possibility inherent in human consciousness. Alex Grey has combined ancient wisdom, anatomical accuracy and post-modern eclecticism to produce elegant, universally accessible, eternally relevant and resonant symbols.
(Via an article in the New York Times)
Or -
...a truly world-class, globally significant shrine, to be located on the shore of Lake Erie adjacent to downtown Buffalo. The shrine will feature primarily a monumental, ascendable, golden triumphal arch, The Arch of Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to be the world’s tallest monument measuring 700 feet to the tip of the golden Cross that will surmount its peak (seven being the mystical number of perfection, as Mary represents the perfection of humanity)....
Take your pick.