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__________S__A__L__O__N____S__A__L__U__T__E__S In Salon Salutes, each week you'll find a list of books, music, movies, articles and other cultural stuff that our editors and contributors enjoyed but that haven't been written about in Salon Magazine. In the rest of Salon Recommends you'll find links to favorable Salon reviews in each category listed. - BOOKS "A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture" by Ann Cline Within a much larger dissertation, architecture professor Ann Cline tells the tales of the huts she has built for herself over the last few decades. Using the hut (be it that of Thoreau, the homeless, the Japanese mountain poets, modern architectural "follies" or her own) as a point of departure, she has recorded an intriguing, if sometimes overreaching, meditation on the meeting of architecture, philosophy, the experience of art and the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. - MOVIES Sheryl Lee's performance in "John Carpenter's Vampires" Calling John Carpenter's down and dirty splatterfest cretinous is an insult to cretins. But as a hooker gradually turning into a vampire, a role so skimpily written it barely exists, Sheryl Lee heads right for the territory that she's staked her own claim to -- the place where fear and eroticism intersect. Lee -- possibly the most daring actress in current American movies, and certainly the most underrated -- plays a woman both repulsed by the transformation coming over her and trembling with a sick pit-of-the-stomach thrill. Her monster-in-the-making is more recognizably human than anything else in the picture. "Love Is the Devil" Although it's tempting and often handy for filmmakers to give in to the tortured-genius cliché when telling the stories of artists, director John Maybury mostly avoids this pitfall in "Love Is the Devil." This biography focuses on the British painter's relationship with his lover, petty thief George Dyer (Daniel Craig). Maybury makes full use of Bacon's canvasses without ever showing us the artist's paintings: The movie is filled with distorted shots and gory hues; the cages and spotlights that filled Bacon's art are transformed into settings and props. As the flamboyantly gay yet emotionally distant and often misanthropic Bacon, Derek Jacobi gives a balanced and believable performance. Last week's Salute - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Books - Movies - Music - Top 10 articles - Salon Salutes - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 21ST |
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