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FILM
In Philip Kaufman's movies, art matters. It can alter lives or wreck them. It is seductive, subversive, or incendiary. At the climax of his new film, Quills, a piece of banned literature incites a madman to set fire to the asylum that houses him, and that image of an institution literally put to the torch because of an unsuccessfully suppressed text is both hilarious...
Philip Kaufman's Artful 'Quills'
By STEVE VINEBERGIn Philip Kaufman's movies, art matters. It can alter lives or wreck them. It is seductive, subversive, or incendiary. At the climax of his new film, Quills, a piece of banned literature incites a madman to set fire to the asylum that houses him, and that image of an institution literally put to the torch because of an unsuccessfully suppressed text is both hilarious...
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