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Monkey See
4:03 pm
Fri September 7, 2012

TIFF '12: On Spectacle, Scenery And Swoonery

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Keira Knightley is Anna Karenina, whose life as a respectable wife and mother is shattered when passion flares between her and the charismatic cavalry officer Count Vronsky.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 6:32 pm

With three TIFF screenings under my belt as of midmorning Friday, I've begun to realize that I've been picking my films based on a few highly personal likes: narrative intensity, rich visuals, inventive compositions and maybe a few other variables. Here's what I mean:

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Monkey See
2:59 pm
Fri August 10, 2012

'Into The Woods' All Over Again, This Time In An Actual Urban Jungle

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Credit Joan Marcus / The Public Theater
Sarah Stiles and Ivan Hernandez are Little Red and the Wolf — whose encounter in Into the Woods brings the fairy tale's charged sexuality forcefully to the surface.
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Donna Murphy plays the Witch and Tess Soltau her ward Rapunzel in Into the Woods, running as part of the Public Theater's 50th-anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season.
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Amy Adams and Denis O'Hare are the Baker and the Baker's Wife, whose desperation to have a kid drives the fractured fairy-tale plot of Into the Woods.
Credit Joan Marcus / The Public Theater
Once the Baker and his Wife collect the four elements to power her spell, the Witch (Donna Murphy) is released from the enchantment that's trapped her in the body of a crone, and restored to her former beauty.
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Originally published on Fri August 10, 2012 3:44 pm

Oh, the questions that circulated when this summer's Shakespeare in the Park revival of Into the Woods was announced.

Who'd play the Baker, that woebegone would-be father at the center of Stephen Sondheim's fractured musical fairy tale?

Who'd step into the star role of the vengeful Witch, played notably by Bernadette Peters in the premiere and by Vanessa Williams in the 2002 revival?

How would the show work in a giant outdoor amphitheater, amid the trees and lawns and urban clatter of Central Park?

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