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"content": "\u003cp>Fashion designer Tom Ford has impeccable taste. In the past, he has breathed new life into such brands as Gucci and Yves St. Laurent, and now he has taken a break from haute couture to direct, co-write, and co-produce his first film. \u003cb>A Single Man\u003c/b> could have easily been a disastrous vanity project, but, surprisingly, it’s a beautiful meditation on loneliness, mortality, and love that has Oscar written all over it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adapted from a Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name, the film is set in Los Angeles in 1962 during the escalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Our protagonist, George Falconer, is a gay college professor who is navigating the fall-out from the death of his lover of 16 years as well as the overall sense of doom and uncertainty of the time period. The audience is immediately given full access to his inner sanctum — his mind is cluttered with painful flashbacks of better times, while he maintains appearances to a neurotic degree (impeccably pressed suits and an immaculate living space). We follow him through his morning rituals, but soon learn that what’s different about this particular day is that George has decided it will be his last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/single-man-1.jpg\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quite heavy material for someone like Colin Firth, who is best known for fluffy fare (\u003cb>Mamma Mia!\u003c/b>) and playing different versions of Mr. Darcy (the BBC’s \u003cb>Pride & Prejudice\u003c/b>, \u003cb>Bridget Jones’ Diary\u003c/b>). To be honest, I didn’t expect much of Firth, but I was wrong. Dead wrong. I never once saw Colin Firth the actor on the screen, only the raw suffering of his character. He’s already won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival and I would be surprised if he didn’t go on to win many more awards, maybe even the most prized gold statue of them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/single-man-2.jpg\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julianne Moore is downright delicious as Charley, a woman who only gets out of bed for her gay best friend or a gimlet. Left behind by her husband and children, Charley indulges in a self-sabotaging desire for George, a man she can never have. She hides her yearning under layers of makeup, cigarette smoke, and booze, only for it to reveal itself in ugly ways when she’s had too much to drink. 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"content": "\u003cp>As disaster movies go, \u003cb>2012\u003c/b> is an over-the-top blast of pedal-to-the-metal, 100 percent unadulterated hokum. It works on the nervous system, the retinas and the gut, largely avoiding the cerebral cortex and, thankfully, the tear ducts. Does \u003cb>2012\u003c/b> confirm and continue Hollywood’s death spiral of million-dollar special effects and 10-cent emotionality? Sure. Is Roland Emmerich the world’s most self-indulgent moviemaker this side of James Cameron? You bet. Does he give you $12.50 worth of entertainment? Oh yeah, baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/2012-landform.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\">\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>In lieu of a standard review of \u003cb>2012\u003c/b> sprinkled with incisive analysis and plot points, I offer a modest list of random takeaways. The filmmaker clearly wishes to impart many life-affirming morals about love, loyalty, compassion and idealized, color-blind humanity, but here’s what I got:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of the worldwide cataclysm, to the degree I could follow the bogus pseudo-scientific palaver, is the sun, and not global warming, dolphin-unsafe tuna or NASCAR. Existentially speaking, I could watch \u003cb>2012\u003c/b> completely guilt-free by virtue that this apocalypse is certified 100 percent natural: My consumption, shopping patterns and general bad manners are in no way responsible. (You can tell that I really, really don’t want to give up imported beer.) So for once, it’s the end of the world as we know it and I really do feel fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/2012-chasm.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\">\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>Notwithstanding all the hot air and smoke that Emmerich blows at us, there’s something primitive and refreshing about the single- and simple-minded drive to survive that fuels the movie. Yes, there are any number of throwaway lines about civilization and culture, but they don’t elevate or even camouflage the basic hellbent impulse to postpone death. Consequently, \u003cb>2012\u003c/b> is free of the stultifying pretension that “great artists” like Peter Jackson and George Lucas lavished on their doltish and enervating power plays between good and evil (the multi-part \u003cb>The Lord of the Rings\u003c/b> and \u003cb>Star Wars\u003c/b> flicks).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we’re on the subject, it’s a great relief not to encounter clone armies and other wellsprings of teen-boy angst. That’s not to say there won’t be a \u003cb>2012\u003c/b> video game, which I envision as a cross between \u003cb>Death Race 2000\u003c/b> and \u003cb>Sim City\u003c/b>. The bigger hurdle for the corporate multi-revenue-streamers who only see movies as one of many “platforms” will be devising and building the theme-park ride. After all, they don’t want the kiddies so shaken and frightened when they disembark that they forget to cry for cotton candy and a T-shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ccenter>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a.s.kqed.net/img/arts/blog/2012-family.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\">\u003c/center>\n\u003cp>Speaking of family harmony, can we leave the damn dog at home the next time the end of the world comes a-calling? Why does every disaster movie require the pointless inclusion of a dimwit, floppy-tongued canine? What food and, um, bathroom facilities do we think will be provided for animals on the spaceship or submarine or hot-air balloon or whatever getaway vehicle we might be lucky enough to procure a seat on? I’m 100 percent attached to my pet, too — a cat, for the record — but I think he’ll be better off with familiar surroundings and a big bowl of food as the doomsday tidal wave approaches than clutched to my chest in a panicky death-grip at the Top of the Mark. (Chugging an imported beer, of course.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that \u003cb>2012\u003c/b> ends the long, long, long string of movies that gave us Presidents (from Kevin Kline to Morgan Freeman to Michael Douglas) who were far more charismatic and confidence-inspiring than the then-current occupant of the White House. Danny Glover plays a kindly, low-key — and yes, black — Chief Executive here, but he sure isn’t Barack Obama. For once, the reality is better than the fantasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret is finally out: Woody Harrelson elevates every movie he’s in. He has a knack for pinpointing and personifying the tone of a movie. 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