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Thick and Thin
A fabled recluse delivers a mixed masterpiece.
Sean Axmaker, January 06, 1999
TERRENCE MALICK'S DIRECTORIAL debut, Badlands, drove "outlaw-couple road film" onto rarely explored backroads of the American unconscious. Now,... More>>
Outing the faculty
My teacher is an alien!
Soyon Im, December 30, 1998
PERHAPS IT'S ANOTHER indication of our end-of-the-millennium degeneracy, but one of the best surprises of this holiday movie season turns out to... More>>
Jungle fever
Go for the gorilla FX; forget the plot.
Sean Axmaker, December 30, 1998
A seamless combination of animatronics, computer-generated effects, and a guy in a good old-fashioned gorilla suit, Mighty Joe Young is a thing... More>>
Short takes
, December 23, 1998
Patch Adams—Robin Williams plays yet another doctor in this film based on a true story. With his shtick split between a clown, mental... More>>
The '98 yearbook
Rewinding and revisiting the year's highs and lows.
Jackie McCarthy, December 23, 1998
1998: Second-rate divas sang forgettable lachrymosities. Retro pastiches gave rock its only glimmer of fun. Enormous entertainment conglomerates... More>>
Alas, poor William
John Longenbaugh, December 23, 1998
A lot of people who see Shakespeare in Love won't know why I hate it so much. "What a cute film!" they'll say. "Nice love story. Gorgeous... More>>
French kissing
Soyon Im, December 23, 1998
France seems almost like Tacoma in Olivier Assayas' A New Life. The opening shot takes place in a Costco-like warehouse where our beautiful young... More>>
Mommies dearest
Soyon Im, December 23, 1998
It's bad enough that Jackie (Susan Sarandon) has to see her ex-husband (Ed Harris) take on a much younger girlfriend (Julia Roberts), but to see... More>>
A star is born
Bret Fetzer, December 23, 1998
Since her father's death, LV—short for Little Voice—has spent most of her life in her upstairs room, listening to her father's... More>>
Where's the promised land?
Bret Fetzer, December 23, 1998
Before there were special effects, miracles must have been really impressive. Nowadays, people have a critical eye—they want some serious... More>>
Riverdance
Emily Baillargeon Russin, December 23, 1998
First of all, it's pronounced "loo-neh-seh," and refers to Lugh, the pagan harvest god of music and light. Lugh is also the name of the wireless... More>>
Blame it on Rio
Sean Axmaker, December 23, 1998
Cynical, middle-aged Dora (Fernanda Montenegro) is a retired schoolteacher who makes ends meet by writing letters for Rio de Janeiro's... More>>
The unkindest cuts: Welles on video
Sean Axmaker, December 23, 1998
The recent Rick Schmidlin/Walter Murch revision of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil marks the fourth cut of that film, though only one version... More>>
All is good and Welles
It's time: 1998 belonged to Orson.
Sean Axmaker, December 23, 1998
During the last years of his life, Orson Welles paid for countless lunch meetings at his favorite Los Angeles restaurant Ma Maison, searching for... More>>
She knows why the caged bird sings
Rosalind Alexander, December 23, 1998
With themes of family survival that recall August Wilson's Piano Lesson and Babyface's blockbuster Soul Food, Down in the Delta is by definition... More>>
Star Drek Star Drek
Oldly going where many men have gone before.
Bret Fetzer, December 16, 1998
Now that the new movie is out, it's clear: The Star Trek franchise is dead. At least Patrick Stewart has a career doing one-man Christmas Carols... More>>
Return to Sender Return to Sender
This romantic comedy has the wrong address.
Ella Taylor, December 16, 1998
If Nora Ephron is the best we can do to restore the glory that once was Hollywood romantic comedy, then perhaps we need another Depression. It... More>>
Luck o' the Irish
Hype aside, 'The Full Monty' this ain't.
Sheila Benson, December 09, 1998
The carefully engineered pre-publicity for the Irish character comedy Waking Ned Devine has brought Kirk Jones, its English writer-director to... More>>
The Simple Complex
In which novelist/ screenwriter Scott B. Smith describes the incredible maze A Simple Plan negotiated on its way to the big screen.
Bret Fetzer, December 09, 1998
A Simple Plan features withered corpses, hungry ravens, mysterious FBI agents, and cold white expanses of snow. Yet the creepiest thing in it is... More>>
Just for the frill of it
Jacques Demy depicts women as all frills and pastels—candy for the libido.
Soyon Im, December 09, 1998
FROM THE OUTSET, a group of women in fluttery miniskirts pirouette and leap across a town square. Men in matching pastel and ecru outfits skip... More>>
Hit the showers
Gus Van Sant's 'Psycho' goes right down the drain.
Ella Taylor, December 09, 1998
Right before Marion Crane steps into the shower in Gus Van Sant's dreary reconstruction of Psycho, the director adds his own bit of business to... More>>
THE FALLING RISE OF Jerry Springer
From mayor to news anchor to talk show host to . . . movie star?
Alex Blumberg, December 02, 1998
I'm in the studio where The Jerry Springer Show is filmed. Getting here from the lobby of the NBC-5 building in Chicago takes most of the... More>>
Under the big top
Alex Blumberg, December 02, 1998
Most people familiar with popular culture instinctively shy away from movies in which the star's name appears in the title. Therefore it's not... More>>
Things fall apart
A film about love that fades.
Bret Fetzer, December 02, 1998
As Anne's eyes wander a restaurant, Pierre stares into them, looking for an answer; what has changed? Is there someone else? She says it's... More>>
Woody the pecker
Old man goes after young girl. Again.
Sean Axmaker, November 25, 1998
Beautiful stars, thronging crowds, the lust for fame . . . and failing all that, trying to get close to it. Not bad topics for a contemporary... More>>
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