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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The film may confuse those unfamiliar with Chinese history, but never mind. Just pay heed to the glorious moviemaking. There is one scene that haunts the heart: an ethereally beautiful blind girl (Xun Zhou) kills herself after the assassin has eradicated the rest of her family. Few directors can create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Emperor And The Assassin | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Sometime in the '60s, Susanna Kaysen was placed in an upscale psychiatric hospital. It appears from Girl, Interrupted, the book she wrote about the experience a couple of decades later, that she might have fared just as well as an outpatient. It appears from the movie version that we would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Girl, Interrupted | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Call that the not-so-new sentimentality. But call Ryder's performance as Kaysen first rate. She moves very persuasively from puzzled, rather passive resentment over her incarceration to a lively awareness of her problems to, finally, edgy mental health. Jolie is more problematic as her best friend, an overt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Girl, Interrupted | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

There were nine of them in reality, just three of them in the movie (for the sake of narrative convenience), and their relentless determination to free a man they came to know only after they took up his cause is impressive. That's especially so since they are led by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hurricane | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

CHRISTMAS SPECIALS Even before It's a Wonderful Life (now an NBC exclusive) became a holiday staple, CBS's animated classics were getting us into the spirit

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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