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fine the term "auto eroticism "
• 'Best of Aardman Animations'
Can you guess which director
has won the most Oscars siiuv 1 WO?
Oliver Stone? Milos Fot ntan? Actu-
ally. Nick Park, the creator of the
Wallace and (iromit films, has won
three Oscars for Best Animated
Short Film.
In Wallace and Gromit: The Best
of Aardman Animations, the studio
behind Park's work releases all three
Wallace and (iromit films and sev-
eral short clay mat ion films by other
directors. Among the other films is
Wat's fig, a 1996 Academy Award
nominee for Best Animated Short.
Aardman Animations specializes
in stoinnotion claymation similar to
the style used in Tim Burton's A
Nightmare Before Christmas. The
characters, molded in Plasticine, are
remarkably expressive. For ex-
ample. Wallace is a talkative inven-
tor whose ideas always lead to disas-
trous effects, (iromit. on the other
hand, ne.ver speaks a line, yet his
face and blinking eyes convey just
as much as Wallace ever does by
speaking.
"No cheese, (iromit," Wallace
discovers in A Grand Day Out. No
problem ever has a simple solution
to a savvy inventor like Wallace, who.
builds a spaceship in his garage and
flies wit h (iromit fo the moon (which.
as we all know, is made of cheese). A
Grand Day Out was nominated for
an Oscar-in 1990 but lost to Nick
Park's debut film. Creature Comforts.
Also included in the film compila
lion,Comfi>rtssh(m
cases the hilari-
ous responses to
an interviewer by
the animals in an
underfunded zoo.
In The Wrong Trousers,
Wall ace ren t s ou t (1 ro m i t' s
room to a mysterious pen-
guin, who turns out to
be notorious jewel
thief "Feathers"
Mcdraw. With
great improve-
ments' over the
duo's initial film
Trousers is British
comedy at its best.
It combines a bi-
zarre story with
amazing visual ef-
fects.
A Close Shave
introduces Wen- Gromit takes on the Rice Media Center.
> mechanic and bodyguard
in Smilla.
dolene Kamsbottom, a love interest
for Wallace. Unfortunately, she may
also be behind a dastardly sheep
rustling scheme.
Nick Park's animated films steal
the show, but the other films are
sure to keep you laughing. As the
frequent Oscar nominations prove,
Aardman Animations has perfected
a new style of comedy and brought
claymation to new levels
The film plays at the Kic<aMedia
Center this Saturday at 7:30 and 9:30
p.m and Sunday at 7:30 only. Tick
ets are $4.50 or $3.50 with Rice 11).
• 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'
As the cold-hearted Smilla
Jaspersen. Julia Ormond plays one
of modern fiction's best female char-
acters in the screen version of Dan-
ish writer Peter lloeg's bestselling
novel Smilla s Sense of Snow. Smilla
4is an intelligent woman who must
deal with inner conflicts. She has
trouble allowing outsiders into her
life, but makes an exception for a
young limit boy. Coming home one
afternoon. Smilla discovers that lie
has fallen to his death from the roof
of their apartment build-
ing. Using her knowl-
edge of snow to analyze
his footprints, Smilla dis-
covers that what the police'dis-
missed as an accident is really
murder.
Although it does not match
the brilliant characterization
of the noveJ, the movie
successfully cap-
tures the diffi-
culty someone
might have in
trusting othfr^*
when her only
loves are math-
ematics and snow.
While investi-
gating the boy's
death, Smilla falls
for a mechanic
(Gabriel Byrne)
who helps pro-
tect her.
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Smilla s difficulty with accepting
her own emotions is a welcome
change from standard jump-in-bed
movie heroines.
As far as Smilla's storyline is con
cerned, the film is a vast improve-
ment over the novel. The movie care-
fully places clues to the solution in
hopes that the book's absurd sci-fi
climax will not catch us entirely by
surprise. Despite an impressive
opening sequence in which a lone
Eskimo fisherman tries to outrun an
icy explosion, the scenes in
Greenland seem completely out of
place. It is nearly impossible to be
Sieve that the boy's death is the key
to an elaborate scientific cover up
that could redefine the world as we
know it.Though a dissatisfying mys
tery, the movie succeeds as a
thought-provoking thriller
• 'Crash'
In Ray Bradbury's short story
"The Crowd," a crash victim recog-
nizes the faces in the crowd around
him and realizes that the same mor-
bidly curious people gather around
accident wreckage. "Hie characters
in David Cronenberg's Crash are also
drawn to the excitement of danger,
but they are not onlookers. They are
the victims.
Crash is based on a novel by J.< .
Ballard. Ballard claims that Crash is
also somewhat autobiographical, "in
the sense that it is about my inner
life, my imaginative life ... not the life
I have actually led,"
When the lives of an adulterous
movie producer (JamesSpader) and
a doctor (Holly Hunter) meet at <>0
miles per hour, their accident opens
up a new realm of sexuality to them.
'Hie couple explores their newfound
attraction with the aid of Vaughan
(Klias Koteas); the leader of a group
of crash survivors who r eenact acci-
dents (including an impressive.re
staging of James 1 Jean's fatal wreck).
Crash would be a much better
movie if it spent more time showing
us the way the characters' minds
work rather than the way their bod-
ies do. The Canadian movie openly
homosexuality, nuoieuces uuet-
ested in this sort of content would be
better satisfied with other movies.
Crash should have focused on tin-
way a fetish can override the natural
instinct for self-preservation, .
The thrill the characters set k in
a split-second accident doe* not logi-
cally lead to their ot her sexual activi-
ties. IiHhe world's longest car wash,
Ballard inexplicably enjoy* watch-
ing another man brutally rape his
wife in the back seat of a car.
The movie succeeds for the most >
part; its daring content is worthy of
recognition (and its NC 17 rating).
At the same time, the movie is some-
what disappointing The actors' pas-
sion seems real, but they never quite
convince us of their motivation.
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• Leadership Rice
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Hardi, Joel & Siy, Angelique. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 1997, newspaper, April 4, 1997; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246565/m1/13/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.