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Comedy short subjects long ago vanished from movie houses; now they are made for TV. TWO MIKES DON'T MAKE A WRIGHT is a trio of such trifles packaged for theatrical release. The Appointments of Dennis Jennings showcases Steven Wright's affectless paranoia ("I remember when I was in the womb; I was over on the right"). Michael Moore of Roger & Me reruns his rollicking contempt for General Motors (and for humanity) in Pets or Meat. The gem is A Sense of History, directed by Mike Leigh. Jim Broadbent, who wrote this deft monologue, plays a squire of Churchillian mien...
...pants?" My New Gun's dramatic tension arises both * from the eccentricity of the performers -- except for the sweetly befuddled Lane, the only human on this planet -- and from the audience's familiarity with so many other movies where guns go off all the time. It has the assured, affectless style of Twin Peaks remade as a sitcom...
...drama -- quick, affectless riffs and crosscuts of action in an ambisexual world of AIDS, serial killers and arrestingly etched violence. Playwright Brad Fraser's theme was the anomie that makes it easier to couple in the dark than to voice one's feelings. His underlying mantra: "Everybody lies...
...drama -- quick, affectless riffs and crosscuts of action in an ambisexual world of AIDS, serial killers and arrestingly etched violence. Playwright Brad Fraser's theme was the anomie that makes it easier to couple in the dark than to voice one's feelings. His underlying mantra: "Everybody lies...
...author's smartest move is letting Hilary tell the tale. This young woman seems peculiarly passive and affectless, not the sort to dwell on or even recognize pathos or tragedy. All perceptions -- grocery displays, radio chatter, the sight of Victor vomiting in a bathroom -- pass through her consciousness with equal weightlessness. Hilary constantly learns things that anyone her age should probably already know. She removes some pictures from the room she and Victor have rented: "When I took them from the wall I noticed that the spaces the frames had occupied were a darker shade than the rest...