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On Screen WOMEN I? CRISIS BY JOHN MORRONE Four films concerning women that were presented at this fall's New York Film Festival are now scheduled for general release. Bertrand Blier's...
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On Screen FAITH, HOPE AND SEXUALITY BY JOHN MORRONE BY turning its low budget into an asset, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape ends up being the most substantial minimalist film...
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On Screen POLYPHONY OF PREJUDICE BY JOHN MORRONE In Do the Right Thing Spike Lee returns to the setting of his 1983 short feature, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, and offers a...
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On Screen OFF THE BLOCKBUSTER PATH BY JOHN MORRONE SUMMER is the season of the escapist movie, and of frustration for the film reviewer. What more can (or should) be written about the...
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On Screen BRITISH MORES BY JOHN MORRONE Aprovocative thought suggested itself as I watched Scandal, Michael Caton-Jones' film about Britain's 1963 Profumo fuss. Wouldn't it be...
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On Screen TELLING TALES BY JOHN MORRONE What you might forget after seeing Michel Deville's La Lectrice (literally, "The Reader") is that it is acomedy. For despite a fleet, feathery...
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On Screen TAKES OF TWO CITIES BY JOHN MORRONE NEW York Stories is a highpowered revival of a narrative format that has been largely passé since the mid-'60s: the sequence film, with one or...
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On Screen FRIENDS AND RELATIVES BY JOHN MORRONE WRITER-DiRECTOR Mike Leigh's High Hopes is about resourcefulness in what he sees as an era of frustration. It provides further evidence that...
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On Screen PATRICIAN AMBITIONS BY JOHN MORRONE IN the prologue to The January Man, two fashionable young women, dressed to the nines for New Year's Eve, step sleekly into their cars and are...
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Modestus, Mr.
On Screen
(January 1990)
