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5 Tennis tactic
8 Marries
12 Vagrant
13 Historic time
14 Here (Sp.)
15 "Metamorphoses" writer
16 Block
18 Highway strip
20 Martial art
21 "Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's — ..."
23 Solidify
24 Made dim
28 At hand
31 Nintendo console
32 Pertinent in law
34 Menagerie
35 Fireplace fuel
37 No longe in use
39 Possesses
41 Missile shelter
42 Frank
45 Name of three presidents
49 Volcanic glass
51 Poet Teasdale
52 Peters out
53 Yon maiden
54 Ids' counterparts
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22 Belgrade people
24 Hooter
25 Life story, for short
26 Go touring
27 Couturier
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30 Weeding need
33 Double agent
36 Cruelty in the extreme
38 Untie
40 Turf
42 Scuttles
43 Post-mortem 25-Down
44 Nub
46 Anger
47 Get bigger
48 Right on the map?
50 "Caught ya!"
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From left, Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and David Gyasi act out a scene in the movie "Interstellar." The movie was directed by Christopher Nolan, who has directed "The Dark Knight" trilogy and "Inception."
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'Interstellar' explores space with grand scope and emotion
Few directors have a creative vision as profound as
as profound as Christopher Nolan, and in "Interstellar," he doesn't just reach for the stars — he hurtles beyond them through space and time.
Nolan steps onto a larger stage with each of his projects, so after redefining the superhero genre with "The Dark Knight" trilogy and probing the depths of the mind in the most thrilling way possible with "Inception", he's now created one of the essential space films. It's an expedition into the final frontier bolstering more emotional heart than his other movies, while the visuals hold such awe as to mesmerize and induce the almighty "Whoooa."
A black hole in space has provided a portal to another
It wouldn't be a Nolan film without dense plotting that both builds a finely detailed world of its own and requires frequent explanation by the characters, yet is still pretty confusing. Earth is dying and most people are farmers, since extreme Dust Bowl conditions and a crop-killing plant disease make food a precious, dwindling resource. Cooper (Matthew McCo naughey), a former NASA pilot, has begrudgingly taken up farming as well, until fate leads him back to (the now secretly operating) NASA, where Professor Brand (Michael Caine) recruits him for a mission to save humanity.
ga1axy, with planets on the other side that could become a new home for humans. if one is verified as hospitable enough. So Cooper, a devoted family man, must leave his farmer son (Timothée Chalamet) and whip-smart daughter (Mackenzie Foy) on Earth, embarking to secure a future for them and everyone else while knowing the mission may last many years. Brand's daughter (Anne Hathaway), two other scientists (Wes Bentley and David Gyasi) and two blocky robots fill out the rest of the crew.
It's a majesty to behold as the ship travels through space, the craft shown like a speck while it passes by the enormity of Saturn. Hans Zimmer's score gives a haunting grandiosity to the giant black void, organs bringing out the wonder in Cooper's musings on exploring the stars and driving home the sad cost of lonely exploration, yet pulsating with tension during sequences of heightened spectacle.
Hearing how the black hole works is fascinating, but watching the jump through it is truly an extraordinary cinematic experience, one worth seeing in IMAX. It's
not the acid-trip crazy of the wormhole in "2001: A Space Odyssey" but rather more like what Space Mountain wishes it could be a transcendent, eye-poppingly SFX-enhanced roller coaster ride.
Replacing Nolan's longtime cinematographer Wallyister (who was making his own movie "Transcendence" instead) is Hoyte Van Hoytema, who uses more restrained techniques to give "Interstellar" a resoundingly elegant visual style. Simple cuts from inside the ship to silent shots strapped to its outside, focused on engines or airlocks with a wide view of space in the background, have immense power. And when the crew faces challenges, Hoytema frames them with intimidating size.
After passing through the black hole, the crew confronts difficult decisions and dangerous obstacles, making for epic thrills and intelligent reflections of deep themes like the explorers' sacrifice, the relativity of time and the power of love. Christopher and brother Jonathan Nolan take a few contrived narrative steps here and there as a means to just move to the next plot point in their script, but by and large, they hit the mark with plausible gripping progression.
The most predictable weak point at least leads to a phenomenally bracing chase scene. Some of the unanswered story threads early on return in the third act in the
most satisfying and mind-expanding section of the film, paying off with extremely clever and emotional strength in story construction.
The cast is all in fine form, though McConaughey's performance exhibits the most stirring moments of authenticity through Cooper's connection to his daughter. Making audiences cry in a major movie can now be added to McConaughey's list of accomplishments.
PHILLIP C. STROZIER Washburn Law.J.D.'14 University of Kansas.'10
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