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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014
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ACROSS
1 Pickle flavoring
2 Emerald City VIP, familiarly
3 Gulp down
4 Great Lake
5 Exist
6 Poi base
7 Protracted
8 Pitch
9 List-ending abbr.
10 Under the wire
11 Insult
12 “— Town”
13 Continental abbr.
14 Sunup
15 Plank producers
16 Cable network
17 Korean car maker
18 Erstwhile acorn
19 "Half-full" believer
20 Sluggish
21 Id counterpart
22 Ecol. grp
42 Released from jail
45 List
49 Caribbean country
50 Science workroom
52 Salver
53 Prayer ending
54 Bache-
lor's final answer
55 Entice
56 Arp's style
57 Serenade the moon
58 Longings
4 Troop group
5 What to do when you're at the end of your rope?
DOWN
1 Sandwich shop
2 Press
3 Scourge of serge
6 A Gershwin brother
7 Nil
8 Graf of tennis
9 Napoleon's downfall
10 Persia, now
11 Prospector's desire
19 Greek conso-nant
21 Cable-
guide
abbr.
24 Pair
25 Cleo-
patra's
slayer
26 Undulat-
ing
furniture
28 Grafton's
“—for
Alibi”
29 1998
Sandler
portrayal
30 Trail the
pack
31 Firma-
ment
36 Chame-
leon's
cousin
37 Calendar
abbr.
38 In concul-
sion
41 Italian
river
42 Oodle
43 Cougar
4 Smooth-
talking
46 Verifiable
47 Deserve
48 Dark
loaves
51 Okla-
homa cit
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What's happening in Lawrence this Halloweenend
Event: Phantom of the Opera film screening
When: Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lawrence Arts Center
What: Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 American horror musical, loosely adapted by the Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Faust.
The screening is followed by live music. Tickets are $10.
Event: Phantom of the Paradise film screening
Event: KU International Student Association Halloween Party
When: Oct. 30, 9 p.m.
Where: Bottleneck
What: Annual ISA Halloween party. KUID and driver's license required for entry. $7 for attendees under 21 and $5 for attendees +21.
EVENT: GWAR
When: Oct. 30, 7 p.m.
Where: The Granada Theater
What: The heavy metal band returns to Lawrence with Decapitated, American Sharks and Troglodyte. Tickets can be purchased prior to the show for $20 and at the door for $24.
The show is for all ages and starts at 7:30 p.m.
**Event:** Foxy By Proxy Burlesque
Revue's 5th Annual Halloween
Hextravaganza
When: Oct. 31, 10 p.m.
Where: Liberty Hall
What: Costumes are encouraged,
$50 prize awarded to the best costume. Winner
announced at the end of the
show. You must be 18+ to
attend, tickets are $10.
Where: the Granada
What: #ASSJAMZ is back for its second annual Halloween Edition featuring a photo booth and a costume competition.
The event is $7 for attendees 21 and under and $5 for attendees +21.
Event: #ASSIAMZ
When: Oct. 31, 9 p.m.
Where: The Granada
Event: Bear Club Proudly Presents: Scare Club Halloween
When: Oct. 31, 10 p.m.
Where: Eighth Street Taproom
What: Bear Club's monthly dance party will carry out a Halloween-themed rave on Friday. Cover fee to be determined at the door, +21 only.
Event: Comedy Freakout:
Halloween Edition
When: Oct. 31, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Where: Frank's North Star
Tavern
What: A special Halloween edition of Comedy Freakout, staring Ian Abramson (The Onion, Seven Minutes in Purgatory) and Tim Barnes (The Whiskey Journal, WBEZ It's All True) as well as various local comedians. There will also be a musical guest, the Organ Loaners, the event is 21+ and $5 to attend.
'Nightcrawler' film is a thrill ride
"Nightcrawler" crosses one line of morality after another as its dark thrills wind the film's crazed energy tighter and tighter, while Jake Gyllenhaal sells them to us hook, line and sinker with an unsettling sociopathic determination. This is the kind of thriller that's so original, uncompromising and thematically complex that it keeps viewers constantly on edge, grabbing hold of them with a can't-look-away grasp akin to seeing a brutal car accident or watching coverage of a tragedy on the news.
That grasp is applied both figuratively and literally, as "Nightcrawler" taps into society's perverse fascination with the carnage of crime and death from the perspective of a person who films those images for TV news, but who's a dangerous man himself.
Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) is a resourceful, savvy thief when we meet him, a shady character trying to make it by with an enterprising attitude and a fervent willingness to learn. Once he discovers the world of "nightcrawlers"—video journalists who race to the scenes of accidents or crimes to record and sell the footage to local Los Angeles news stations—he gets sucked into it completely.
It's a profession perfectly suited to his exploitative and disconnected personality, so he quickly excels at it—partially because he doesn't limit himself to any sort of ethical behavior. Much of the tension and twisted excitement of "Nightcrawler" comes from how Lou breaks the rules and begins shaping the news himself, from tampering with crime scenes for better shots to withholding information to lead a story in a more perilous direction.
Lou frequently spouts his personal philosophies of how to achieve his goals and how to be successful, which he's gathered from lessons and advice taken in from the Internet. Gyllenhaal's salesman-like delivery of these make him seem less human and more impersonal, as well as weirdly funny; he's unable to (or possibly just not interested in) connecting with other human beings. He's a sociopath of the most selfishly driven manner, and watching him dive down the rabbit hole of moral decay and come through thriving makes for an electrifying journey.
Lou treats his hapless and homeless assistant Rick (Riz Ahmed) terribly and tries to manipulate Nina (Rene Russo), the older news director at the TV station to whom he brings his stories, into a weird relationship with him. Lou's clearly not a good guy, feeding off the vulnerability of others, but Gyllenhaal is at his career-best giving a livewire performance that makes him seem both vampirically creepy but also charming. His crazy eyes show the hunger of someone who won't stop until he's got it all.
Nina offers a unique foil to Lou; after taking control of the newsroom, she pushes her station's boundaries on TV news violence. Russo's negotiations with Gyllenhaal are charged with shifting, riveting power dynamics. She personifies an engaging commentary of how local news shocks and frightens us every day with violent stories and proves humorous in her terse scare tactics with stories.
Writer and director Dan Gilroy's tight screenplay often looks as if it's about to deliriously run off the rails, but he amazingly manages
to keep it together. His direction of the high-speed chase sequences, cold-sweat-inducing suspense and chilling sense of unhinged morality only enhances the film's intensity. The late-night sprawl of L.A. is shot with dazzling cinematography that paints the things Lou films more with opportunity than tragedy, except for when we actually see his own gritty footage on the news.
Lou tearing through streets like a madman in his red Dodge Challenger, shot with
unflinching ferocity, makes the stomach drop more than any "Fast and the Furious" movie. The entire third act is brimming with incredibly satisfying craziness, the final chase being one of the best action sequences of the year.
Creepier than most scary movies and way more enthralling, "Nightcrawler" focuses on gruesome deaths, the horror of TV news and a loner's gripping descent into moral depravity.
Edited by Jordan Fox
November's Bookclub book:
Next Bookclub meeting:
Thurs. Nov. 6, 3:15pm In conjunction with SUA's Tea at Three Level 4 Traditions Area, Kansas Union
Join the club! KUUnionBookclub@gmail.com Bookclub at the U meets the first Thursday of each month classes are in session
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